Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World - Hardcover

Fagan, Brian M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500050570 ISBN 13: 9780500050576

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1990

Synopsis

Discusses a controversial theory of common human ancestry in the form of one woman who lived in Africa approximately 150,000 years ago, and discusses the ways in which early humans evolved and spread out around the world

About this title

From Library Journal:

Fagan, an archaeologist and author of The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America ( LJ 9/15/87) and other books, begins this account of the emergence of "anatomically modern" humans with the genetic evidence for a common human ancestor, nicknamed "Eve," living in Africa approximately 200,000 years ago. He then explores the evidence for two theories of human dispersal. The "Noah's Ark" school finds a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa for Homo sapiens sapiens, who subsequently colonized the other continents, while the "Candelabra" school argues that Homo erectus evolved independently into Homo sapiens in Asia and possibly Europe. Some of this material appears in Michael E. Brown's The Search for Eve ( LJ 2/1/90), but Fagan's book is far more concise, authoritative, and articulate. Readers with some background in paleontology will find this book very rewarding.
- Beth Clewis, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Coll. Lib., Richmond, Va.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0500050570
• ISBN 13: 9780500050576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256