Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Audiobook)

from GerryD8784

From acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade, a lively narrative of the much more detailed story that can now be told about human pre-history - the period from 50,000 to 3,500 BCE, when we began to talk, started to wear clothes and then left Africa to populate the rest of the worl...

from jasonlf

The best, most up-to-date volume I've read on what recent genetic analysis tells us about human origins, pre-history, language, evolution over the last 10,000 years, and several other important questions. It begins with the story of how the origins of human clothing were dated -- by figuring out ...

from terbby

This book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in knowing the insights brought to bear on human history by the modern science of genetics. The author accomplishes nothing less than a comprehensive review of previous knowledge in the light of recent developments. The subject is riveting: whe...

from LisCarey

Nicholas Wade discusses how the growing science of genetics expands and deepens our understanding of human evolution, our relationship to our closest relatives, and how we became the species we are--and what we might become in the future.There's a lot of ground to cover, and this is a survey, not...

from Stbalbach

Before the Dawn has been described as "meaty" because it is so full of thought provoking ideas, one could read it multiple times to absorb the many lines of evidence from 7 or 8 different academic disciplines, hardly a page goes by without an "ah hah" moment. Since the book was published in 2006,...