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Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Like jared diamonds guns, germs and steel, mapping human history is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. My grandparents were jews from byelorus and poland. 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.
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