THE WORLD BEFORE US: HOW SCIENCE IS REVEALING A NEW STORY OF OUR HUMAN ORIGINS
Written by Tom Higham
Published by Viking
in 2021
ISBN: 9780241440674
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- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- PREHISTORIC
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- GENETICS
- EVOLUTION
THE WORLD BEFORE US: HOW SCIENCE IS REVEALING A NEW STORY OF OUR HUMAN ORIGINS
Written by Tom Higham.
Stock no. 1829405
1st.
2021.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Following the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that enabled us to better predict not just how long ago other human species lived (Neanderthals, Denisovans, 'Hobbits' and Homo luzonensis), but how they lived. Could they make art, recall their dreams, or joke? Did they play music, or use medicine? What might Homo sapiens have learned from them? Yellow cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos and charts, a few colour photos. xiv and 296 pages including index. ISBN: 9780241440674. A lovely copy. Black dustwrapper is scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Out of Africa
- 3. Neanderthals Emerge into the Light
- 4. The Road to Denisova Cave
- 5. The Genetic Revolution
- 6. A New Species of Human
- 7. Where are the Fossil Remains?
- 8. Finding Needles in Haystacks
- 9. The Science of 'When'
- 10. On the Trail of the Modern Human Diaspora
- 11. DNA from Dirt
- 12. The Hobbits
- 13. The Journey to the East of Wallace's Line
- 14. Homo erectus and the Ghost Population
- 15. Disappearing from the World
- 16. Our Genetic Legacy
- 17. The World Before Us