Mapping human history
Subtitle: genes, race, and our common origins
By: Steve Olson.
Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Mariner Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Human population genetics; Physical anthropology and history; Human genetics -- Variation; Human beings -- Migration
Notes: "A Mariner book."

Earlier edition has subtitle: Discovering the past through our genes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The human pageant; title: I. AFRICA: The end of evolution: the African origins of modern humans; title: The individuals and groups: the divergence of modern humans; title: The African diaspora and the genetic unity of modern humans; title: II. THE MIDDLE EAST: Encounters with the other: modern humans and Neandertals in the Middle East; title: Agriculture, civilization, and the emergence of ethnicity; title: God's people: a genetic history of the Jews; title: III. ASIA AND AUSTRALIA: The great migration: to Asia and beyond; title: Sprung from a common source: genes and languages; title: IV. EUROPE: Who are the Europeans? == Immigration and the future of Europe; title: V. THE AMERICAS: The settlement of the Americas; title: The burden of knowledge: Native Americans and the Human Genome Diversity Project; title: VI. THE WORLD: The end of race: Hawaii and the mixing of peoples.