A short history of nearly everything

1981.

“all present-day humans are descended from that population . . .” Swisher et al., p. 189.

“people began to look a little more closely . . .” Scientific American, “Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door?” August 1999.

“DNA from the arm bone of the original Neandertal man . . .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Ancient DNA and the Origin of Modern Humans,” January 16, 2001.

“all modern humans emerged from Africa . . .” Nature, “A Start for Population Genomics,” December 7, 2000, p. 65, and Natural History, “What’s New in Prehistory,” May 2000, pp. 90-91.

“more diversity in one social group of fifty-five chimps . . .” Science, “A Glimpse of Humans’ First Journey Out of Africa,” May 12, 2000, p. 950.

“In early 2001, Thorne and his colleagues . . .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in Ancient Australians: Implications for Modern Human Origins,” January 16, 2001.

“the genetic record supports the out of Africa hypothesis.” Rosalind Harding interview, Institute of Biological Anthropology, February 28, 2002.

“whether he thought an old skull was varnished or not . . .” Nature, September 27, 2001, p. 359.

“had inserted a visit to Olorgesailie. . .” Just for the record, the name is also commonly spelled Olorgasailie, including in some official Kenyan materials. It was this spelling that I used in a small book I wrote for CARE concerning the visit. I am now informed by Ian Tattersall that the correct spelling is with a median e.

CHAPTER 30 GOOD-BYE

“a handful of crude descriptions by ‘unscientific voyagers . . .’ ” Quoted in Gould, Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, pp. 237-38.

“Australia . . . lost no less than 95 percent . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. xv.

“there are only so many mammoth steaks you can eat.” New Scientist, “Mammoth Mystery,” May 5, 2001, p. 34.

“only four types of really hefty . . . land animals . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, p. 195.

“human-caused extinction now may be running . . .” Leakey and Lewin, The Sixth Extinction, p. 241.

“He set off at once for the island . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, pp. 62-63.

“At each successive discharge . . .” Quoted in Matthiessen, Wildlife in America, pp. 114-115.

“the zoo lost it . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 125.

“as many as four hundred at a time . . .” Gould, The Book of Life, p. 79.

“Hugh Cuming, who became so preoccupied . . .” Desmond and Moore, p. 342.

“Millions of years of isolation . . .” National Geographic, “On the Brink: Hawaii’s Vanishing Species,” September 1995, pp. 2-37.

“if someone imitated its song . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 84.

“a bird so sublimely rare . . .” Flannery and Schouten, p. 76.

“By the early 1990s he had raised the figure . . .” Easterbrook, A Moment on the Earth, p. 558.

“A United Nations report of 1995 . . .” Valley News, quoting Washington Post, “Report Finds Growing Biodiversity Threat,” November 27, 1995.

“One planet, one experiment.“ Wilson, The Diversity of Life, p. 182.

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