Spencer Wells, Author . Random $26 (230p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6215-7
More food but also disease, craziness, and anomie resulted from the agricultural revolution, according to this diffuse meditation on progress and its discontents. Wells (The Journey of Man
), a geneticist, anthropologist, and National Geographic...
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Spencer Wells, Author Princeton University Press $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-691-11532-0
In this surprisingly accessible book, British geneticist Wells sets out to answer long-standing anthropological questions of where humans came from, how we migrated and when we arrived in such places as Europe and North America. To trace the...
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Spencer Wells, Author National Geographic Society $24 (247p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6215-2
In this concise and well-written work, Wells (The Journey of Man) provides an accessible introduction to genetic anthropology, the study of human history using genetic evidence. Wells is the director of the Genographic Project, which collects DNA...
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Spencer Wells, read by the author, Tantor Media, unabridged, six CDs, 6.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1626-3
Wells examines the positive and negative impact civilizations have had on the planet, from court hearings on genetically designed babies to the threat of environmental degradation on the Tuvalu Islands. His story brings the listener from a...
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