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As a professional science journalist who has worked for the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Genomic Research in Washington DC, Olson is very well placed to communicate the scientific details of this emerging story in an eminently readable form for the general reader. Mapping Human History is a well-researched exploration (with full notes of sources and index) of our current understanding of the diaspora of modern humans out of Africa, a mere 100,000 or so years ago. As he is at pains to point out, every single one of the six billion people on the planet today is descended from the small group of anatomically modern humans who once lived in eastern Africa--we are all Africans despite the superficial differences which racists try to make a meal of. While telling the remarkable stories of the travels of different populations around the world, which have resulted in the huge range of cultural differences, Olson constantly reminds us of our biological connectedness one with another.--Douglas Palmer
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