The improbable primate: how water shaped human evolution / Clive Finlayson
by Finlayson, Clive
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Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xix, 202 pages: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Contents:The inverted panda -- And the world changed forever -- At the lake's edge -- The first humans -- Middle earth: the home of the first humans -- The drying world of the Middle Pleistocene -- The rain chasers: solutions in a drying world -- The exceptional world of the Neanderthal -- Global expansion of the rain chasers -- Australia -- From Lake Chad to Puritjarra and beyond. Subjects: Human beings Origin. Water History. Human evolution.Paleoecology Pleistocene.Human beings Effect of environment on. Monogenism and polygenism.
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- Title
- The improbable primate: how water shaped human evolution / Clive Finlayson
- Author
- Finlayson, Clive
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 2014
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