Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

S
TEPHEN
O
PPENHEIMER
is a world-recognized expert in the synthesis of DNA studies with archaeological and other evidence to track ancient migrations. He is a Research Associate at the Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford University.

Praise for
Out of Eden

‘Wonderfully readable and excitingly controversial . . . Readers who liked Jared Diamond’s
Guns, Germs and Steel
will love this.’

John Terrell, Director of Anthropology,
The Field Museum, Chicago

‘To discover the real daughters of Eve, read on.’

Martin Richards,
Researcher in Human Evolutionary Genetics

‘Readable but authoritative.’

Andrew Sherratt, Professor of Archaeology,
University of Oxford

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The peopling of the world

STEPHEN OPPENHEIMER

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Copyright © Stephen Oppenheimer 2003, 2004

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To my daughter Maylin and son David,
to my wife Freda,
and to my father and mother.

To know where we are going,
we have to know where we are;
to know that we have to know where we came from

Filipino version of an Oceanic proverb

C
ONTENTS

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Prologue

1 Out of Africa

2 When did we become modern?

3 Two kinds of European

4 First steps into Asia, first leap to Australia

5 The early Asian divisions

6 The Great Freeze

7 The peopling of the Americas

Epilogue

Appendix 1
The real daughters of Eve

Appendix 2
The sons of Adam

Notes

Index

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LLUSTRATIONS