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Summary: Impressively little content.
Comment: One doesn't learn a lot about evolutionary genetics from this book. When the author talks about how
statisticians arrive at a result he does a really poor job of explaining the calculation for a
layman. He presents almost nothing at all, just stating results. The book contains a lengthy list
of results from many different fields. Most people want to know a lot more about how the various
quantities are deduced, even a newspaper article goes more in depth. Science via inductive logic is
a little sketchy, but you get the impression that the author doesn't understand that what he studied
in grad school is inductive. One receives the impression that the author doesn't question much of
anything at all.

This is a book about everything he learned as a post-doc, all the people that
he met, and all of their theories. But, I don't think that many people will take anything away from
The Journey of Man - it lacks the substance that readers of layman's science books desire.

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Summary: Why I love this book!
Comment: I am Indian (with roots in the Indian subcontinent) and I like the way Spencer Wells touches upon
our "aryan" Y-chromosome that (as he explains) we share with the eastern europeans. Take that
Hitler. And yes I too feel this book beats Seven Daughter of Eve (by Bryan Sykes)by far.
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Summary: No photos in the paparback edition!!!
Comment: The paperback edition (ISBN: 0812971469) does NOT include any photographs. They are essential and
included in the hardcover edition (ISBN: 069111532X) in a great number!!!
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Summary: Best book of it's kind!
Comment: Spencer Wells, unlike Bryan Sykes who wrote Seven daughters of Eve, is not an egomaniac. Wells
mostly sticks just to the facts. Included in JOM are some excellent bits on the Aryan YChromosome
being present in Indians of India to Eastern Europeans. Plus, that India-Indians also often possess
the Y chromosome of Neolithic Middle Eastern ancestry that nearly all European have in their bodies
as well. Other good facts in JOM too. Thanks Spencer.
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Summary: Way better than Sykes's egotrip Seven Daughters of Eve
Comment: That's for sure. Author Spencer Wells doesn't blab endlessly about himself in it like like Bryan
Sykes did about himself in SDOE. Wells just sticks more to Genetic science facts. This book also is
the reverse of SDOE in that that book, when it wasn't about Sykes (which was rare), concerned the
mitochondrial DNA inherited from mothers. This better book by Wells concerns the Y-chromosome
inherited from fathers. There is info info on the Aryan dna y chromosome, which does scientifically
exist. Also, Wells mentions rarely-known fact that Indians of India posses some aryan Y Chromosomes
plus they (like nearly all europeans) have the Mid-East Y chromsome from the neolithics who left
Syria around 10,000 years ago trekking to various part of the wortld. Great book all around (Wells's
book that is, not Sykes's).

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