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Chapter Of Myself, By Steve Olsen
Summary of chapter1: The first chapter of this book written by Steve Olsen is telling us the history of human life in Africa. The author uses few hypothesis to describe the differences between Bushmen and anyone else. As the Bushmen were described as animals by the settlers who tried to push them away from their own territory because of their way of life. This has led to a breaking point in this first chapter. The Bushmen were not so much difference then anyone living today even though they lived away from everyone else. Nevertheless, the differences between the Bushmen and anyone else is their skin deep and the DNA sequence of their genes that lie at the base of the physical uniqueness. No, I did not know about mitochondrial DNA and its relevance
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