In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer
Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations
of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years.
Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History
is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a
wide range of sources, including the latest genetic research,
linguistic evidence, and archaeological findings, Olson reveals the
surprising unity among modern humans and "demonstrates just how
naive some of our ideas about our human ancestry have been"
(Discover).Olson offers a genealogy of all humanity, explaining,
for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar and Confucius as
forebears. Olson also provides startling new perspectives on the
invention of agriculture, the peopling of the Americas, the origins
of language, the history of the Jews, and more. An engaging and
lucid account, Mapping Human History will forever change how we
think about ourselves and our relations with others.
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