A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system / Patrick Manning. [electronic resource]
A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system / Patrick Manning. [electronic resource]
A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system / Patrick Manning. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Human System -- Pleistocene Evolution -- 2 Biological and Cultural Evolution -- 3 Speech and Social Evolution -- 4 Systemic Expansion -- 5...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
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2020.
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Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural s...
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A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system / Patrick Manning. [electronic resource]
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Online version: Manning, Patrick, 1941- A history of humanity. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108784528 (DLC) 2019033820
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0Rj5x3
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1-108-78452-6
1-108-80418-7
1-108-78859-9
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304.209
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991024402495702626
