| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:56 |
| 2 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 2 “…It can be called new in the sense that genetic information…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:56 |
| 3 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 3 “…Neither account gives due weight to the other interested…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:02 |
| 4 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 4 “…Researchers in each of these seven disciplines have helped…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:56 |
| 5 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 5 “…Judging whom to trust, forming alliances, keeping score…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:09 |
| 6 | Chapter 1: Genetics and Genesis, Part 6 “…The human genome bears many marks of recent evolution, prompted…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:34 |
| 7 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:10 |
| 8 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 2 “…There are several reasons to suppose that the ancestral…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:04 |
| 9 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 3 “…Each community’s survival strategy lay in defending as large…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:07 |
| 10 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 4 “…For two million years of australopithecines existence, there…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:49 |
| 11 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 5 “…Higher social primates like apes and people probably encounter…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:06 |
| 12 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 6 “…This in turn means that infants would have had to be carried…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:07 |
| 13 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 7 “…The first is the way that men and women choose each other…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:54 |
| 14 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 8 “…Rogers realized that from the silent mutations in the African…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:00 |
| 15 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 9 “…A close relative and presumably descendant of ergaster,…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:06 |
| 16 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 10 “…They obtained their stone locally, not through trade, suggesting…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:01 |
| 17 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 11 “…Achaelogists tend to explain changes in terms of culture,…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:59 |
| 18 | Chapter 2: Metamorphosis, Part 12 “…Another behavior generally considered modern is fishing…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:02 |
| 19 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:18 |
| 20 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 2 “…Typical utterances of Nim Chimpsky, a chimp trained by Herbert…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:12 |
| 21 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 3 “…It’s certainly true that human behavior seems to be under…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:04 |
| 22 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 4 “…However, Chomsky did have a significant impact on what others…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:04 |
| 23 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 5 “…Each generation of kids taught it to the next, and the language…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:01 |
| 24 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 6 “…Precise and unambiguous thoughts could at last be shared…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:05 |
| 25 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 7 “…The zoologically unusual features of Homo sapiens can be…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:06 |
| 26 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 8 “…The gene, with the odd name of FOX P 2, shows telltale signs…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:14 |
| 27 | Chapter 3: First Words, Part 9 “…The switch to an A at this site in the genre meant that in…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:59 |
| 28 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:48 |
| 29 | Author’s Note: Human Genetics | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:50 |
| 30 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 2 “…It’s a curious fact of genetics that one version of a gene…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:46 |
| 31 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 3 “…Estimating the ancestral population size…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:48 |
| 32 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 4 “…The southern San of the Cape were largely driven to extinction…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:36 |
| 33 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 5 “…They discovered that the Hadzabe too are an extremely ancient…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:56 |
| 34 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 6 “…In the seventeenth century they inhabited all of southern…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:42 |
| 35 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 7 “…Others, like language, may result from the interaction of…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:39 |
| 36 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 8 “…Although the San’s mitochondrial L1 lineage makes them only…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:51 |
| 37 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 9 “…Before that time, infanticide is part of the mother’s prerogative…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:50 |
| 38 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 10 “…At that point, or shortly after, the poison arrows come…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:40 |
| 39 | Chapter 4: Eden, Part 11 “…But their technology would have been considerably less sophisticated…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:37 |
| 40 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:02 |
| 41 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 2 “…But if the geneticists are right that there was only one…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:51 |
| 42 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 3 “…Perhaps more likely is that the odds of survival were small…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:48 |
| 43 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 4 “…Genetic diversity refers to the number of alternative versions…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:54 |
| 44 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 5 “…Another estimate, made by geneticists working with mitochondrial…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:00 |
| 45 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 6 “…The reason was almost certainly the activity of a vigorous…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:58 |
| 46 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 7 “…These tribes seem to have married within themselves, with…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:49 |
| 47 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 8 “…Like the Kung San, the Dani fight to kill. They have not…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:55 |
| 48 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 9 “…she also extracted mitochondrial DNA from hair samples that…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:06 |
| 49 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 10 “…In the east, for lack of archaeological studies, it is not…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:57 |
| 50 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 11 “…The long struggle against the Neanderthals…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:46 |
| 51 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 12 “…They managed to extract mitochondrial DNA from the original…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:00 |
| 52 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 13 “…The modern humans probably moved as they always did, expanding…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:01 |
| 53 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 14 “…For some reason the modern people who reached Europe and…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:51 |
| 54 | Chapter 5: Exodus, Part 15 “…In Lahn’s view, many genes are likely to be involved in…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:03 |
| 55 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:59 |
| 56 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 2 “…As with the Upper Paleolithic age, the end of the Pleistocene…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:56 |
| 57 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 3 “…The cave, according to the evidence of radiocarbon dates…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:57 |
| 58 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 4 “…The practice of cave art continued at the Magdalenian sites…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:47 |
| 59 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 5 “…The most ancient, the U5 cluster, had a time-in-Europe date…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:58 |
| 60 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 6 “…And if historical linguists should succeed in reconstructing…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:52 |
| 61 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 7 “…Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:00 |
| 62 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 8 “…That still leaves open the question of what humans were…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:50 |
| 63 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 9 “…And finally there was Amerind, a group to which in his view…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:46 |
| 64 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 10 “…That led Douglas Wallace, of the University of California…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:55 |
| 65 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 11 “…The mitochondrial DNA lineages are now found in all three…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 5:01 |
| 66 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 12 “…The Y chromosome carries rather few genes, most of them…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:52 |
| 67 | Chapter 6: Stasis, Part 13 “…In one of these, presumably the most successful, the particular…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:50 |
| 68 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 1 | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:54 |
| 69 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 2 “…Houses and storage facilities seem to have been privately…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:42 |
| 70 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 3 “…The first clear evidence of a successful and long term settled…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:42 |
| 71 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 4 “…Settlement, in other words, would have created a quite novel…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:35 |
| 72 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 5 “…Another proposal is that the warming of the climate after…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:46 |
| 73 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 6 “…Franceso Salamini, of the Max Planck Institute for Plant…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:41 |
| 74 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 7 “…But the founder analysis undertaken by Richards, as mentioned…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:48 |
| 75 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 8 “…The culture, which lasted from 6,000 to 5,000 years ago,…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:36 |
| 76 | Chapter 7: Settlement, Part 9 “…Joel Hirschhorn of the Harvard Medical School has found…” | Nicholas Wade narrated by Alan Sklar | 4:49 |
