Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Other by Nicholas Wade read by Alan Sklar

Released 2006

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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 2 “…It can be called new in the sense that genetic information…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:56
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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 3 “…Neither account gives due weight to the other interested…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
5:02
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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 4 “…Researchers in each of these seven disciplines have helped…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:56
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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 5 “…Judging whom to trust, forming alliances, keeping score…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
5:09
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Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 6 “…The human genome bears many marks of recent evolution, prompted…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:34
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 2 “…There are several reasons to suppose that the ancestral…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 3 “…Each community’s survival strategy lay in defending as large…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 4 “…For two million years of australopithecines existence, there…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:49
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 5 “…Higher social primates like apes and people probably encounter…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 6 “…This in turn means that infants would have had to be carried…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 7 “…The first is the way that men and women choose each other…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 8 “…Rogers realized that from the silent mutations in the African…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 9 “…A close relative and presumably descendant of ergaster,…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 10 “…They obtained their stone locally, not through trade, suggesting…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 11 “…Achaelogists tend to explain changes in terms of culture,…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:59
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Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 12 “…Another behavior generally considered modern is fishing…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 2 “…Typical utterances of Nim Chimpsky, a chimp trained by Herbert…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 3 “…It’s certainly true that human behavior seems to be under…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 4 “…However, Chomsky did have a significant impact on what others…”
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 5 “…Each generation of kids taught it to the next, and the language…”
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 6 “…Precise and unambiguous thoughts could at last be shared…”
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 7 “…The zoologically unusual features of Homo sapiens can be…”
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 8 “…The gene, with the odd name of FOX P 2, shows telltale signs…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 3: First Words, Part 9 “…The switch to an A at this site in the genre meant that in…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Author’s Note: Human Genetics
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 2 “…It’s a curious fact of genetics that one version of a gene…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 3 “…Estimating the ancestral population size…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 4 “…The southern San of the Cape were largely driven to extinction…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 5 “…They discovered that the Hadzabe too are an extremely ancient…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 6 “…In the seventeenth century they inhabited all of southern…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 7 “…Others, like language, may result from the interaction of…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 8 “…Although the San’s mitochondrial L1 lineage makes them only…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 9 “…Before that time, infanticide is part of the mother’s prerogative…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 10 “…At that point, or shortly after, the poison arrows come…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 4: Eden, Part 11 “…But their technology would have been considerably less sophisticated…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 2 “…But if the geneticists are right that there was only one…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 3 “…Perhaps more likely is that the odds of survival were small…”
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 4 “…Genetic diversity refers to the number of alternative versions…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 5 “…Another estimate, made by geneticists working with mitochondrial…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 6 “…The reason was almost certainly the activity of a vigorous…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 7 “…These tribes seem to have married within themselves, with…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 8 “…Like the Kung San, the Dani fight to kill. They have not…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 9 “…she also extracted mitochondrial DNA from hair samples that…”
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 10 “…In the east, for lack of archaeological studies, it is not…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 11 “…The long struggle against the Neanderthals…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 12 “…They managed to extract mitochondrial DNA from the original…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 13 “…The modern humans probably moved as they always did, expanding…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 14 “…For some reason the modern people who reached Europe and…”
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Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 15 “…In Lahn’s view, many genes are likely to be involved in…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 2 “…As with the Upper Paleolithic age, the end of the Pleistocene…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 3 “…The cave, according to the evidence of radiocarbon dates…”
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 4 “…The practice of cave art continued at the Magdalenian sites…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 5 “…The most ancient, the U5 cluster, had a time-in-Europe date…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 6 “…And if historical linguists should succeed in reconstructing…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 7 “…Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 8 “…That still leaves open the question of what humans were…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 9 “…And finally there was Amerind, a group to which in his view…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 10 “…That led Douglas Wallace, of the University of California…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 11 “…The mitochondrial DNA lineages are now found in all three…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 12 “…The Y chromosome carries rather few genes, most of them…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 13 “…In one of these, presumably the most successful, the particular…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 2 “…Houses and storage facilities seem to have been privately…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 3 “…The first clear evidence of a successful and long term settled…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 4 “…Settlement, in other words, would have created a quite novel…”
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 5 “…Another proposal is that the warming of the climate after…”
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 6 “…Franceso Salamini, of the Max Planck Institute for Plant…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 7 “…But the founder analysis undertaken by Richards, as mentioned…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 8 “…The culture, which lasted from 6,000 to 5,000 years ago,…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 9 “…Joel Hirschhorn of the Harvard Medical School has found…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 2 “…In chimpanzee groups, most of the males are related to each…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
5:05
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 3 “…A chimp community never assembles as a whole. Chimps move…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
4:52
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 4 “…At the head of the male hierachy is the alpha male, who…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 5 “…Fifi helped her firstborn son Freud take his first steps…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 6 “…Following is the analysis offered by Richard Wrangham, a…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 7 “…Chimpanzees carefully calculate the odds and seek to minimize…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 8 “…The efficacy of primitive warfare…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 9 “…In the Indian wars, the US Army ‘usually suffered severe…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 10 “…He was found, Keeley writes drily, ‘with one of these monies…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 11 “…This was a regular practice among the Fore of New Guinea…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 12 “…Among forager societies, warfare can benefit the victor,…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 13 “…Darwinian fitness, defined as reproductive success, is a…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 14 “…Such a behavior could therefore evolve, providing that a…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 15 “…But trade depends on trust, on the decision to treat a total…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 16 “…Religious ceremonies involve emotive communal actions, such…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 17 “…For early societies making the first use of language, there…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 18 “…What underlay this coevolution of religion with social structure…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 19 “…The novel arrangement of pairing off males and females creates…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 20 “…However abhorrent the means, the motivation stems from the…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 21 “…Among cases where paternity is disputed, 2.4% of cases have…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 22 “…The indicators of mental fitness, in his view, include both…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 23 “…In each region of the world they follow an independent,…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 24 “…This process started some 50,000 years ago, and, in Wrangham’s…”
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Chapter 8: Sociality, Part 25 “…To spread the risk of catching nothing, hunters like the…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 1
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 2 “…(The enzymes’ original role was to break down the natural…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 3 “…Skin color is therefore an ambiguous indicator of continental…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 4 “…Without interbreeding to keep the human gene pool mixed,…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 5 “…Most previous systems of race classification, with the principal…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 6 “…Feldman’s method gives a glimpse of how deeply genetic markers…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 7 “…According to the American Sociological Association, race…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 8 “…The FST for the allele between Caucasians and everyone else…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 9 “…Physicians who study racial disparities in medicine are…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 10 “…But many sports, particularly track events, are now much…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 11 “…In Diamond’s view, it was the economic head start and the…”
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Chapter 9: Race, Part 12 “…Given that the human form was undergoing another genetic…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 2 “…Even in England, up until the late 1970s, speakers could…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 3 “…The same process may have occurred on a worldwide basis…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 4 “…The rice region, in their view, was the origin of no…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 5 “…The Kurgan people, benefiting from the domestication of…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 6 “…The farther this wave of farmers advanced into Europe, the…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 7 “…Since the daughter languages of proto-Indo-European have…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 8 “…Norwegian and Old Norse have 81% of their Swadish list words…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 9 “…Moreover, a reliable dating method would at last allow language…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 10 “…But many linguists repudiate Greenberg’s language families…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 11 “…Afroasiatic is a language family of general interest since…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 12 “…The Comparative Method Versus Mass Comparison…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 13 “…Whatever the theoretical objections to Greenberg’s method…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 14 “…2. Armenian…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 15 “…It could be just by chance that the Indo-European and Japanese…”
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Chapter 10: Language, Part 16 “…It was, perhaps, a final gibe at his critics, who insisted…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 11: History, Part 2 “…His folowers brought his body home to a hill in northeast…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 11: History, Part 3 “…The Qing imperial nobility consisted of male descendants…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 11: History, Part 4 “…Research showed that there were many Sykeses living in Yorkshire…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 11: History, Part 5 “…But a survey of Britsih Y chromosomes shows that the Y chromosomes…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 6 “…News of this virgin territory, with no hostile natives,…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 7 “…The Black Death killed 45% of the population in 1402-1404…”
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 11: History, Part 8 “…Jewish Origins…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 9 “…Once the community was established and reached sufficient…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 10 “…This fact was on the mind of Karl Skorecki, a medical researcher…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 11 “…Indeed he must do so immediately on her return from the…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 12 “…The Jewish population may have grown to about a million…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 13 “…If one of the survivors carried a generally rare mutation…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 14 “…‘From roughly 800 AD to 1650 or 1700 AD, the great…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 15 “…Though several aspects of the argument cross disputed academic…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 16 “…But apart from Jordan, who stated that a liaison between…”
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Chapter 11: History, Part 17 “…Of Sally Heming’s descendants, Foster collected blood from…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 1
Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 2 “…But it required another development, a diminution of human…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 3 “…The nature of this interaction between culture and evolution…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 4 “…The statistical method she used gives a broad range of possible…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 5 “…‘This proces is probably still ongoing in humans,’ they…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 6 “…Sexual selection, in this case the effort by one male…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 7 “…‘Western ideas of freedom, originating from the early Hellenic…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 8 “…‘You used to marry a lass from your local village, now it’s…”
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Chapter 12: Evolution, Part 9 “…Suppose the genetic modification eventually takes the form…”
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

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