Title:
Lone survivors : how we came to be the only humans on earth / Chris Stringer.
ISBN:
9780805088915
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U. S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2012]
©2012
Physical Description:
xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
The big questions -- Unlocking the past -- What lies beneath -- Finding the way forward -- Behaving in a modern way : mind reading and symbols -- Behaving in a modern way : technology and lifeways -- Genes and DNA -- Making a modern human -- The past and future evolution of our species.
Summary:
Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
OCLC Number:
ocn728087776
Availability:
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