Modern Humans : : Their African Origin and Global Dispersal / / John Hoffecker.

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent-and perhaps the most important-phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.) :; 75 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Chapter One Information, Complexity, and Human Evolution
  • Chapter Two Modern Human Origins and Dispersal: The Synthesis
  • Chapter Three An Evolutionary Context for Homo sapiens
  • Chapter Four Recent African Origin
  • Chapter Five Global Dispersal: Southern Asia and Australia
  • Chapter Six Global Dispersal: Northern Eurasia
  • Chapter Seven Global Dispersal: Beringia and the Americas
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX