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...book, however, is much more than a refutation of the latest pseudoscientific pronouncement. The prime mover behind the project, Cavalli- Sforza, 72, a Stanford professor, labored with his colleagues for 16 years to create nothing less than the first genetic atlas of the world. The book features more than 500 maps that show areas of genetic similarity -- much as contour maps match up places of equal altitude. By measuring how closely current populations are related, the authors trace the pathways by which early humans migrated around the earth. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree...
...Know how to use an atlas, a map, a globe...
...this was just Atlas' shrug, one would hate to see the shimmy. If this was not the Big One, then it is almost impossible to imagine what that would be like. In the aftermath of 30 seconds on Monday, at least 55 people died. Local mountains may have risen more than a foot. Nine highways snapped like twigs. An oil main and 250 gas lines ruptured, igniting an untold number of fires. So many wires fell down and circuits blew that 3.1 million people were plunged into total darkness. Water was denied to 40,000. There were more than...
...know what your favorite California wine tastes like. But where is it made? And what does the countryside look like? For answers, consider one of two new coffee-table atlases of West Coast wineland. The Wine Atlas of California (Viking; $50) by James Halliday is organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...