Modern Humans - Their African Origin and Global Dispersal

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent¿and perhaps the most important¿phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.

List of contents

1. Information, Complexity, and Human Evolution
2. Modern Human Origins and Dispersal: The Synthesis
3. An Evolutionary Context for Homo sapiens
4. Recent African Origin
5. Global Dispersal: Southern Asia and Australia
6. Global Dispersal: Northern Eurasia
7. Global Dispersal: Beringia and the Americas
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

John F. Hoffecker is a fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has conducted field research in Alaska and Eastern Europe and is the author of Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe (2002); A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes (2005); (with Scott A. Elias) Human Ecology of Beringia (Columbia, 2007); and Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought (Columbia, 2011).

Summary

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.

Product details

• Authors: John Hoffecker, John F. Hoffecker, Hoffecker John F.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780231160766
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16076-6
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Biology, life sciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Human biology, Human Geography, Genetics (non-medical), Social groups, communities and identities