The History of Africa

The Quest for Eternal Harmony

Second Edition

Student Resources: Part I

Click on the tabs below to view a Further Reading list for Part I, and additional resources for each of the chapters in this section of the book.

Further Reading

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Bowler, Peter J. (2003). Evolution: The History of an Idea (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Cavalli-Sforza, F, Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (1995). The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. New York, NY: Perseus Book Publishing.

Fitzpatrick, T. (2006). New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa – Replacement theory “demolished,” Washington University in St. Louis. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/6349.aspx

Gibbons, A (May 2001). Human anthropology. Modern men trace ancestry to African migrants. Science 292 (5519): 1051–2.

Harding, R. M, Healy, E, Ray, A. J, Ellis, N. S, Flanagan, N, Todd. C, Dixon, C, Sajantila, A, Jackson, I. J, Birch-Machin, M. A, Rees, J. L. (2000). Evidence for variable selective pressures at MC1R. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 66 (4): 1351–61.

Long, J. C., Kittles, R. A. (2003). Human genetic diversity and the nonexistence of biological races. Human Biology. 75 (4): 449–71.

McKie, R, Stringer, C. (1997). African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. London: Pimlico.

National Geographic. Modern Humans Came from Africa. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070718-african-origin.html. Retrieved 30 January 2014.

National History Museum. Where Did Modern Humans Come from?  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/modern-human-evolution/where/

Olson, S. (2003). Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Oppenheimer, S. (2003). The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers.

Russell, S. (2008). DNA studies trace human migration from Africa. San Francisco Chronicle.

Science Daily. 100,000 Year-Old Ochre Toolkit and Workshop Discovered in South Africa. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013141807.htm. Retrieved 30 January 2014.

Stringer, Chris. (2011). The Origin of Our Species. London: Allen Lane.

Tattersall, I (2009). Human Origins: Out of Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106 (38): 16018-16021. http://www.pnas.org/content/106/38/16018.full.pdf+html

Underhill, P. A., Passarino, G., Lin, A. A., Shen, P., Mirazón Lahr, M., Foley, R. A., Oefner, P. J., Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (2001). The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations." The American Journal of Human Genetics. 65 (Pt 1): 43–62.

Chapter 1

Weblinks

  1. Human Origins Project. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
    http://humanorigins.si.edu/
  2. The Story of Africa. BBC
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml

Images

Senegalese Scholar Cheikh Anta Diop. Photo courtesy of Molefi K. Asante