The Human Career. Human Biological and Cultural Origins. - KLEIN, RICHARD G.
Human Biological and Cultural Origins
KORTE INHOUD
Described as "by far the best book of its kind" (Henry McHenry, Evolution) and "the best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published" (R. A. Foley, Antiquity), The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins since its publication in 1989. This substantially revised edition retains Richard Klein's innovative approach and incorporates new findings from the past decade.
The Human Career chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. Its comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, Klein emphasizes that human morphology...
The Human Career chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. Its comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, Klein emphasizes that human morphology...
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1999Uitgever: University of Chicago Press810 paginasISBN-10: 0226439631ISBN-13: 9780226439631Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's light-blue paper-covered boards, illustrated frontcover, 2nd revised & enlarged edition [1989], thick large 8vo: xxx, 810pp., richly illustrated / maps / tables, lists illustrations & tables, chapternotes & references, bibliography [over 2500 titles], reference index, site index, subject index. Very fine copy., Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 1999 [Auteur: KLEIN, RICHARD G.] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: The Human Career. Human Biological and Cultural Origins.]
