Genetic Odysseus of man

About 60,000 years ago, a man lived in Africa. Each of us is his descendant. How did this really existing Adam become our common father and what path his children and grandchildren have made to populate almost all the corners of our land? The answers to these questions are given by genetics, which have become accessible to an unprepared reader thanks to the witty, full of amazing facts of the book of the famous geneticist Spencer Wells. In a scientific accurately, but funny and accessible, the author writes about the latest discoveries of molecular biology and population genetics, which allowed to unravel the most exciting secrets of mankind-from the truth about real Adam and Eve to the appearance of different races