Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from Jewsbury

This book is an easy-to-read well-craft tale written by an authoritative geneticist. The author shows how we can discover details of our shared pre-history - the time before writing. It is certainly fascinating to delve into the unknown. Evidence abounds because the past has imprinted itself upon...

from deebee1

A good introductory reading on a fascinating subject by the world's leading population geneticist, summarizing in very-easy-to-follow narrative main findings of his research in the last four decades confirming the hypothesis that the human species is not divided into color-coded races. From the g...

from deebee1

A good introductory reading on a fascinating subject by the world's leading population geneticist, summarizing in very-easy-to-follow narrative main findings of his research in the last four decades confirming the hypothesis that the human species is not divided into color-coded races. From the g...

from hippietrail

Very well researched and insightful, except for the language section which embraces all kinds of proposed superfamilies roundly rejected by the majority of linguists.

from setnahkt

It's not clear who comprises the intended audience for this book. It seems to have been intended as a more popular version of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza's magnum opus, the encyclopedic, fascinating, and unfortunately very expensive The History and Geography of Human Genes. It doesn't succeed there...