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Lone survivors : how we came to be the only humans on earth / Chris Stringer.
Penn Museum Library GN281 .L65 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stringer, Chris, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Origin.
- Human beings.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013.
- Summary:
- Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
- Contents:
- The big questions
- Unlocking the past
- What lies beneath
- Finding the way forward
- Behaving in a modern way : mind reading and symbols
- Behaving in a modern way : technology and lifeways
- Genes and DNA
- Making a modern human
- The past and future evolution of our species.
- Notes:
- Originally published: The origin of our species. London : Allen Lane, ©2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781250023308
- 1250023300
- OCLC:
- 855581724
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