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The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe--descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? Shipman admits that scientists have yet to ... Read more
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe--descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? Shipman admits that scientists have yet to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674975415
SKU
V9780674975415
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About Paperback
Pat Shipman is retired Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.
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