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Indlæser... Out of Africa's Eden: The People of the World (udgave 2003)af Stephen Oppenheimer (Forfatter)
Work InformationOut of Eden: The Peopling of the World af Stephen Oppenheimer
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Peculiar enough...i was reading with russian translation next to it. They even managed once to translate male line as "female", putting the reasoning of entire chapter upside down. Let alone constant references from translators to Bible. Ridiculous and enraging. ( ) This is a synthesis of genetics, archaeology and climatology that looks at how and where our ultimate ancestors could have lived. Stephen Oppenheimer presents a plausible theory about the earliest days of man. It is categorised as popular science but it is not always an easy read and, for me, some of the chapters dragged. Worth reading but I do not think it should be read without some knowledge of the topic. Genetic markers allow the family trees of human groups to be constructed going back a hundred thousand years or more. The distribution of these markers across the continents allow the movements of human groups to be tracked over this time. This is fascinating and important stuff. But prepared to concentrate: this is not an easy read. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelsk (14)The question of how the world was first peopled by modern humans is one of the most controversial in science. This book presents new findings that radically change our existing views of humanity's global migration.Its main argument centers around the theory that there was only one exodus, one group of early modern humans from Africa, that went on to people the rest of the world. It suggests that this exodus took place 80,000 years ago via a little known southern route across the mouth of the Red Sea. It also argues that living Malaysian tribes provide an extant link of the route pursued from there, as modern humans beachcombed their way to Australia in the space of 10,000 years. These theories form an account of modern man's remaining journey around the world - to the Mammoth Steppe heartland of Asia, to the now submerged continent of Beringia, and on to the last great unpeopled lands of the Americas. No library descriptions found. |
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