Out Of Eden The Peopling Of The World

Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780337531
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/

Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337531
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/

Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Constable Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781841196978
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Eden written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Spencer Wells
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176019
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey of Man written by Spencer Wells and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 60,000 years ago, a man, genetically identical to us, lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, the author reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, this book is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind.

Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780753806791
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden in the East written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book completetly changes the established and conventional view of prehistory by relocating the Lost Eden—the world's first civilisation—to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India, which included Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo. In Eden in the East, Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in southeast Asia—rather than in Mesopotamia where it is usually placed—was the lost civilization that fertilized the Great cultures of the Middle East 6,000 years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, creation stories, myths, linguistics, and DNA analysis to argue that this founding civilization was destroyed by a catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in the sea level at the end of the last ice age.

Author : Joseph Harvey Waggoner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Eden to Eden written by Joseph Harvey Waggoner and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucinda Fleeson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 156512944X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waking Up in Eden written by Lucinda Fleeson and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Imagine a one-hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid ocean cliffs, rain forests, and secluded coves. Exotic and beautiful, yes, but as Fleeson awakens to this sensual world, exploring the island's food, beaches, and history, she encounters an endangered paradise—the Hawaii we don't see in the tourist brochures. Native plants are dying at an astonishing rate—Hawaii is called the Extinction Capital of the World—and invasive species (plants, animals, and humans) have imperiled this Garden of Eden. Fleeson accompanies a plant hunter into the rain forest to find the last of a dying species, descends into limestone caves with a paleontologist who deconstructs island history through fossil life, and shadows a botanical pioneer who propagates rare seeds, hoping to reclaim the landscape. Her grown-up adventure is a reminder of the value of choosing passion over security, individuality over convention, and the pressing need to protect the earth. And as she witnesses the island's plant renewal efforts, she sees her own life blossom again.

Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218835
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayflower written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.

Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN 13 : 9781597409681
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey from Eden written by Brian M. Fagan and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Homo sapiens and the spread of humanity across the continents. Line illustrations are included.

Author : Kenneth A. Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Corners written by Kenneth A. Brown and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, looking at the history, geography, and people of the southwestern part of the country.