World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE

Name: World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE
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ISBN: 9780195333152

ISBN-10: 0195333152

ISBN-13: 9780195333152

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ian Tattersall

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This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution. It concludes with a brief overview of the subsequent diversification of cultural and technological traditions in all the areas our species inhabits. A particular focus is on the pattern of events/innovations in human biological and cultural evolution, which have tended not to proceed in lockstep. Prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens innovations of this kind were generally sporadic, and rare; since that event their frequency has been steadily increasing. Tattersall draws on his own…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Editors' Preface



Evolutionary Processes



Fossils and Ancient Artifacts



On Their Own Two Feet



Emergence of the Genus Homo



Getting Brainier



Modern Human Origins



Settled Life


Chronology


Further Reading


Websites


Acknowledgments


Index