Martin Jones

The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A revolution is underway in archaeology. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the building blocks of ancient life-DNA, proteins, fats-to rewrite our understanding of the past. Their discoveries (including a Mitochondrial Eve, the woman from whom all modern humans descend) and analyses have helped revise the human genealogical tree and answer such questions as: How different are we from the Neanderthals? Who first domesticated horses and ancient grasses? What was life like for our ancestors? Here is science at its most engaging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 999
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628722253
• Artikelnr.: 54882320

Autorenporträt

Martin Jones is the first holder of the George Pitt-Rivers Professorship of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University and was chairman of the international Ancient Biomolecules Initiative research program.