The improbable primate: how water shaped human evolution / Clive Finlayson
2014, 1st Edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #355272
Physical description: xix, 202 pages: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Contents:
The inverted panda -- And the world changed forever -- At the lake's edge -- The first humans -- Middle earth: the home of the first humans -- The drying world of the Middle Pleistocene -- The rain chasers: solutions in a drying world -- The exceptional world of the Neanderthal -- Global expansion of the rain chasers -- Australia -- From Lake Chad to Puritjarra and beyond. Subjects: Human beings Origin. Water History. Human evolution.
Paleoecology Pleistocene.
Human beings Effect of environment on. Monogenism and polygenism.
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