Eco homo : how the human being emerged from the cataclysmic history of the earth / Noel T. Boaz.
Eco homo : how the human being emerged from the cataclysmic history of the earth / Noel T. Boaz.
Eco homo : how the human being emerged from the cataclysmic history of the earth / Noel T. Boaz.
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New York : BasicBooks, c1997.
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T0389016
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English
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Physical content
ix, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Ecological Changes and Primate Evolution: The Prime Movers of Change -- 2. Hypothesis 1: The Earth Cools and the Gorilla Evolves in Montane Isolation -- 3. Hypothesis 2: The African Western Rift Valley Split Human Ancestors Off from Chimps -- 4. Hypothesis 3: The Developing Sahara Split Hominids...
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Publisher
New York : BasicBooks, c1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
This book is about the immense forces of nature that formed and shaped the human species over millions of years. It is also about the new high-tech science that has allowed us to peer into the dark recesses of the past as never before and to reconstruct the trials, adaptive successes, and evolution of our ancestors. In Eco Homo, paleoanthropologist...
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Eco homo : how the human being emerged from the cataclysmic history of the earth / Noel T. Boaz.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.
Transferred from N599.938/2.
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c1997.
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T0389016
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74VMQrQGBvvO
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0465018033
9780465018031
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599.938
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991000499579702626
