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  Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins OTHER ARTICLES In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the latest genetic research, linguistic evidence, and archaeological findings, Olson reveals the surprising unity among modern humans and demonstrates just how naive some of our ideas about our human ancestry have been (Discover).Olson offers a genealogy of all humanity, explaining, for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar and Confucius as forebears. Olson also provides startling new perspectives on the invention of agriculture, the peopling of the Americas, the origins of language, t...

  Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature OTHER ARTICLES A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.      There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races humans are naturally aggressive and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Agustín Fuentes tackles misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, and incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution that requires us to dispose of notions of nature or nurture.   Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth...