Out of Africa’s Eden: The Peopling of the World – Stephen Oppenheimer

Condition : Good.
First Edition, Jonathan Ball, 2003, Large-format Paperback – Archaeology – 440pp.

In 1988 Newsweek broke the news that everyone alive on the planet today carries DNA that can be traced back to a single woman living in Africa over 150 000 years ago.

Modern humans are truly ‘out of Africa’. But how, when and why we left our motherland was open to question and until very recently most experts believed that many waves of ex-African migration had resulted in a gradual populating of the world.