Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors [P2P ePub Ed. v 1.0 [UL]] 1-4295-1377-2

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a

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Pages 313 Year 2006

Table of contents :
1 Genetics & Genesis
The First Tailored Clothes
From Adam to Jefferson

2 Metamorphosis
Transforming Ape Society into Human Society
The Farewell to Fur
The First Exit from Africa
Anatomically and Behaviorally Modern Humans

3 First Words
The Nature of Language
Pidgins, Creoles and Sign Languages
Evolutionary Pressures for Language
Discovery of a Gene for Language

4 Eden
The Genealogies of Eve and Adam
Estimating the Ancestral Population Size
The Click Language Echo from the Mother Tongue
Tracing the Boundaries of Eden
Between the Universal People and the Real People
Ancestral Portrait

5 Exodus
Passage to India
Peopling the Lost Continents of Sunda and Sahul
The Enigma of the Andaman Islanders
The Penetration of East Asia and Indonesia
The Long Struggle against the Neanderthals
The Moderns' Conquest

6 Stasis
Upper Paleolithic Transitions
The Upper Paleolithic in Eastern Asia
The First Discovery of the Americas
Adapting to Cold with Mitochondrial DNA
Origin of the Mongoloid Peoples

7 Settlement
Settlement and Domestication
The Interaction of Genes and Culture:
Lactose Tolerance

8 Sociality
The Dynamics of Primate Societies
The Bonobo Alternative
The Costs and Benefits of Warfare
The Efficacy of Primitive Warfare
The Skeleton in the Human Past
The Evolutionary Basis of Social Behavior
The Evolution of Religion
The Privatization of Sex
The Domestication of People
The Progression of Human Society

9 Race
Differentiation of the Ancestral Human Population
Identifying Race by DNA
Scientific Attitudes to Race
Genotype and Phenotype among Races
Genes versus Geography
Emergence of Human Races

10 Language
Language Spread Zones and Mosaic Zones
The Coming of the Indo-Europeans
Can Languages Be Dated?
A New Date for Proto-Indo-European
The Greenberg Synthesis
The Comparative Method versus Mass Comparison
The Eurasiatic Superfamily
Echoes of the First Language

11 History
The Secret Strategy of Genghis Khan
A History of Britain, from the Genome's Viewpoint
The Origin of Icelanders
Jewish Origins
DNA and the Secret Family of Thomas Jefferson

12 Evolution
Evolution in the Recent Human Past
Evolution in History
Future Directions of Human Evolution

NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CREDITS
INDEX
About the Author

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors [P2P ePub Ed. v 1.0 [UL]]
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