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Zusatztext The Improbable Primate provides a useful starting point for this next great challenge. Informationen zum Autor Clive Finlayson is a noted expert on the Neanderthals and has been researching their final stand in Gibraltar. He is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, having trained in Oxford as an evolutionary ecologist. His previous books include Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutinary Perspective (CUP, 2004) and The Humans Who Went Extinct (OUP, 2009). Klappentext In The Improbable Primate! Clive Finlayson gives a provocative view of human evolution! arguing that the critical factor that shaped us was water. Questioning current accounts of tools and our spread from Africa! he presents an ecological viewpoint. Zusammenfassung In this provocative view of human evolution, Clive Finlayson argues that the critical factor to shape us was environmental change, particularly the availability of water. Using these new insights he demonstrates the radical implications for our understanding of the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1 The Inverted Panda; 2 And the World Changed Forever; 3 At the Lake's Edge; 4 The first humans; 5 Middle Earth: The home of the first humans; 6 The Drying World of the Middle Pleistocene; 7 The Rain Chasers - Solutions in a Drying World; 8 The Exceptional World of the Neanderthal; 9 Global Expansion of the Rain Chasers; 10 Nature's Driving Force; 11 Australia; 12 From Lake Chad to Puritjarra and beyond; 13 The Improbable Primate Revisited
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- Preface
- 1: The Inverted Panda
- 2: And the World Changed Forever
- 3: At the Lake's Edge
- 4: The first humans
- 5: Middle Earth: The home of the first humans
- 6: The Drying World of the Middle Pleistocene
- 7: The Rain Chasers - Solutions in a Drying World
- 8: The Exceptional World of the Neanderthal
- 9: Global Expansion of the Rain Chasers
- 10: Nature's Driving Force
- 11: Australia
- 12: From Lake Chad to Puritjarra and beyond
- 13: The Improbable Primate Revisited
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Did water make people human? Mr Finlayson certainly makes a convincing case. The Economist
