MEETING THE FAMILY（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Donovan Webster has written three books, including the
prize-winning Aftermath: The Remnants of War. He has also written
for major magazines such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and the
New York Times,/i magazine.

　　Donovan Webster brings his vivid journalistic gifts to a new
subject, tracing our deep genealogy using cutting-edge DNA research
to map our eons-old journey from prehistoric Africa into the modern
world. With the same genetic haplotype as many white American
males, Webster makes an ideal subject—he is a genuine Everyman.
While his voice and spirit are unique to him, in exploring his own
ancestry, he shows us our own.
　　Drawing on National Geographic’s Genographic Project, the largest
anthropologic DNA study of its kind, Webster traces centuries of
migrations, everywhere finding members of his now far-flung genetic
family. In Tanzania’s Rift Valley, he hunts with Julius, whose
tribe speaks a click language, and wanders the ruins of ancient
Mesopotamia with Mohamed and Khalid, now Jordanian citizens. In
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, eastern frontier of his ancestral roaming, a
circus ringmaster becomes both friend and link to his primal
bloodline.
　　Webster’s genographic quest leads him to contemplate what traits
he shares with those he meets, and considers what they and their
ways of life reveal about the deep history of our species. A
lifetime of journalistic travels among a wide range of cultures
furnish Webster with a wealth of colorful threads to weave into a
story as particularly personal as it is universally human.