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Before the dawn : recovering the lost history of our ancestors / Nicholas Wade.
Penn Museum Library GN281 .W33 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wade, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Social evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- From acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade, a liverly narrative of the much more detailed story that can now be told about human pre-history -- the period from 50,000 to 3,500 BCE, when we began to talk, started to wear clothes and then left Africa to populate the rest of the world -- due to an explosion in the last five years of findings in a host of fields, including linguistics, archeology, and paleontology and genetics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1594200793
- OCLC:
- 62282400
- Publisher Number:
- 9781594200793
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