Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar

Comprised of:

1. Nicholas Wade Male Person, Born: 17 May 1942 in Aylesbury
2. Alan Sklar Male Person, Born: in

Recordings (155)

1. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 1 4:56 (2006)
2. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 2 “…It can be called new in the sense that genetic information…” 4:56 (2006)
3. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 3 “…Neither account gives due weight to the other interested…” 5:02 (2006)
4. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 4 “…Researchers in each of these seven disciplines have helped…” 4:56 (2006)
5. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 5 “…Judging whom to trust, forming alliances, keeping score…” 5:09 (2006)
6. Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 6 “…The human genome bears many marks of recent evolution, prompted…” 4:34 (2006)
7. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 1 5:10 (2006)
8. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 2 “…There are several reasons to suppose that the ancestral…” 5:04 (2006)
9. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 3 “…Each community’s survival strategy lay in defending as large…” 5:07 (2006)
10. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 4 “…For two million years of australopithecines existence, there…” 4:49 (2006)
11. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 5 “…Higher social primates like apes and people probably encounter…” 5:06 (2006)
12. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 6 “…This in turn means that infants would have had to be carried…” 5:07 (2006)
13. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 7 “…The first is the way that men and women choose each other…” 4:54 (2006)
14. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 8 “…Rogers realized that from the silent mutations in the African…” 5:00 (2006)
15. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 9 “…A close relative and presumably descendant of ergaster,…” 5:06 (2006)
16. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 10 “…They obtained their stone locally, not through trade, suggesting…” 5:01 (2006)
17. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 11 “…Achaelogists tend to explain changes in terms of culture,…” 4:59 (2006)
18. Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 12 “…Another behavior generally considered modern is fishing…” 5:02 (2006)
19. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 1 5:18 (2006)
20. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 2 “…Typical utterances of Nim Chimpsky, a chimp trained by Herbert…” 5:12 (2006)
21. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 3 “…It’s certainly true that human behavior seems to be under…” 5:04 (2006)
22. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 4 “…However, Chomsky did have a significant impact on what others…” 5:04 (2006)
23. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 5 “…Each generation of kids taught it to the next, and the language…” 5:01 (2006)
24. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 6 “…Precise and unambiguous thoughts could at last be shared…” 5:05 (2006)
25. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 7 “…The zoologically unusual features of Homo sapiens can be…” 5:06 (2006)
26. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 8 “…The gene, with the odd name of FOX P 2, shows telltale signs…” 5:14 (2006)
27. Chapter 3: First Words, Part 9 “…The switch to an A at this site in the genre meant that in…” 4:59 (2006)
28. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 1 4:48 (2006)
29. Author’s Note: Human Genetics 4:50 (2006)
30. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 2 “…It’s a curious fact of genetics that one version of a gene…” 4:46 (2006)
31. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 3 “…Estimating the ancestral population size…” 4:48 (2006)
32. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 4 “…The southern San of the Cape were largely driven to extinction…” 4:36 (2006)
33. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 5 “…They discovered that the Hadzabe too are an extremely ancient…” 4:56 (2006)
34. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 6 “…In the seventeenth century they inhabited all of southern…” 4:42 (2006)
35. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 7 “…Others, like language, may result from the interaction of…” 4:39 (2006)
36. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 8 “…Although the San’s mitochondrial L1 lineage makes them only…” 4:51 (2006)
37. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 9 “…Before that time, infanticide is part of the mother’s prerogative…” 4:50 (2006)
38. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 10 “…At that point, or shortly after, the poison arrows come…” 4:40 (2006)
39. Chapter 4: Eden, Part 11 “…But their technology would have been considerably less sophisticated…” 4:37 (2006)
40. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 1 5:02 (2006)
41. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 2 “…But if the geneticists are right that there was only one…” 4:51 (2006)
42. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 3 “…Perhaps more likely is that the odds of survival were small…” 4:48 (2006)
43. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 4 “…Genetic diversity refers to the number of alternative versions…” 4:54 (2006)
44. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 5 “…Another estimate, made by geneticists working with mitochondrial…” 5:00 (2006)
45. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 6 “…The reason was almost certainly the activity of a vigorous…” 4:58 (2006)
46. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 7 “…These tribes seem to have married within themselves, with…” 4:49 (2006)
47. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 8 “…Like the Kung San, the Dani fight to kill. They have not…” 4:55 (2006)
48. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 9 “…she also extracted mitochondrial DNA from hair samples that…” 5:06 (2006)
49. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 10 “…In the east, for lack of archaeological studies, it is not…” 4:57 (2006)
50. Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 11 “…The long struggle against the Neanderthals…” 4:46 (2006)