Pandora's Seed by Spencer Wells
Examines our cultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led us to the path we are on, one the author believes we must veer from in order to survive. This title takes us on a globe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal event roughly 10,000 years ago, when our species made a radical shift in its way of life.
Spencer Wells - explorer, geneticist, geographer, and author - takes us on an exciting tour of the last 10,000 years of our history in order to forewarn us of what we shall have to deal with in the next 50 years -- Jared Diamond, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse
Spencer Wells's writing combines a deep knowledge of the history of human evolution with a most engaging and lively manner of making that story come alivePandora's Seed draws upon compelling anecdotes and moving personal narratives to crystallize a crucial turning point in the history of our species, the point at which modern human beings stop and look back at our long evolutionary trajectory, and confront squarely its dark side, its cost -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Spencer Wells has a provocate and timely message. He argues that we are at a critical juncture where our culture could destroy the very essence of what it means to be human ... Everyone with a stake in humanity's future should read this book -- Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming and Cro-Magnon
Spencer Wells's writing combines a deep knowledge of the history of human evolution with a most engaging and lively manner of making that story come alivePandora's Seed draws upon compelling anecdotes and moving personal narratives to crystallize a crucial turning point in the history of our species, the point at which modern human beings stop and look back at our long evolutionary trajectory, and confront squarely its dark side, its cost -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Spencer Wells has a provocate and timely message. He argues that we are at a critical juncture where our culture could destroy the very essence of what it means to be human ... Everyone with a stake in humanity's future should read this book -- Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming and Cro-Magnon
Spencer Wells is a leading population geneticist, documentary filmmaker and author of The Journey of Man and Deep Ancestry. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1994 and conducted his post-doctoral training with Luca Cavalli-Sforza at Stanford University. His landmark research findings from a field study that encompassed 25,000 miles of Asia and the former Soviet republics led to advances in the understanding of the male Y chromosome and its ability to trace ancestral human migration.
He was previously director of the Population Genetics Research Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford and was recently appointed Frank H.T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at Cornell University. Wells is currently National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and spearheads the Genographic Project. He lives with his wife, a documentary filmmaker, in Washington, DC.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713997552 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713997559 |
| Title | Pandora's Seed |
| Author | Spencer Wells |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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