Origin Africa : : A Natural History / / / Jonathan Kingdon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kingdon, Jonathan,
• Author: Kingdon, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 50 color + 75 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Chapter 1 What is Africa? --; Chapter 2 Gondwana's Core --; Chapter 3 Dawn and Consequences from Chance --; Chapter 4 Afloat on Planet Ocean (Adrift and Heading North) --; Chapter 5 Global Wobbles and Climate Change --; Chapter 6 Habitats Defined by Plants --; Chapter 7 Emigration and Immigration --; Chapter 8 Diversity - Highs and Lows --; Chapter 9 Succession --; Chapter 10 Diseases and Plagues --; Chapter 11 Louder, Softer, Bigger, Smaller, Faster, Slower, Duller, Brighter --; Chapter 12 Behaviour Drives Morphology --; Chapter 13 Ecological Elders --; Chapter 14 Import and Export of Primates --; Chapter 15 Slow but Smart --; Chapter 16 The Boreal, Latitudinal Realm --; Chapter 17 The Austral, Longitudinal Realm --; Chapter 18 Niche-thieves --; Chapter 19 Out of Africa and Back Again - the Banda Strandlopers --; Chapter 20 Translating Nature --; Chapter 21 Mind and Memory --; Chapter 22 Process as Principle --; Further Reading --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691249032; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319216; 9783111318615; 9783110749748
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691249032?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Kingdon.

From a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, an original and personal account of how the continent's ecosystems enabled human evolutionAfrica was the evolutionary cradle for Homo sapiens. But what was it about Africa's ecosystems that made human evolution possible? In Origin Africa, Jonathan Kingdon, a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, sets human evolution within its African context, examining the natural conditions that enabled the rise of humans and the flowering of the continent, from preexisting geological factors and the broad-scale evolution of plants and animals to the emergence of hominids and beyond. Richly illustrated, the book features a wealth of photographs, artwork, and diagrams. Few people have the breadth of knowledge required to tackle this story and no one can tell it as well as Kingdon.