Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
9 best books like Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Steve Olson): The World That We Knew, Charlotte Gray, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, Moonfleet, The Wishing Stone, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1501137573 |
In 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.
In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows...
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
| ISBN | 0375704558 |
From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.
In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops...
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
| Author | Bryan Sykes |
| ISBN | 0393020185 |
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204200 |
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led...
| Author | Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza |
| ISBN | 0520228731 |
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question—anticipated by Darwin—with a decisive yes. Genes, Peoples, and Languages comprises five lectures...
"Moonfleet" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure?
As...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0671550683 |
While hiking in the woods around Spooksville, Adam and his friends find a cube-shaped stone. It is clear, like a crystal, and seems to shine with colored light. To their immense surprise, the discover that if they hodl it and make a wish for something, that thing happens. They call it the Wishing Store....
| Author | William L. Rathje |
| ISBN | 0816521433 |
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
