The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
Author:   Clive Finlayson (Director of the Gibraltar Museum)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198743897


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution


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Author:   Clive Finlayson (Director of the Gibraltar Museum)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.50cm
Weight:   0.170kg
ISBN:  

9780198743897


ISBN 10:   0198743890
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: The Inverted Panda 2: And the World Changed Forever 3: At the Lake's Edge 4: The first humans 5: Middle Earth: The home of the first humans 6: The Drying World of the Middle Pleistocene 7: The Rain Chasers - Solutions in a Drying World 8: The Exceptional World of the Neanderthal 9: Global Expansion of the Rain Chasers 10: Nature's Driving Force 11: Australia 12: From Lake Chad to Puritjarra and beyond 13: The Improbable Primate Revisited

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Finlayson writes in a dry, clear, scholarly style which somehow accentuates the sheer improbability of humanity's long journey * Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday *


Finlayson writes in a dry, clear, scholarly style which somehow accentuates the sheer improbability of humanity's long journey Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday


Author Information

Clive Finlayson is a noted expert on the Neanderthals and has been researching their final stand in Gibraltar. He is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, having trained in Oxford as an evolutionary ecologist. His previous books include Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutinary Perspective (CUP, 2004) and The Humans Who Went Extinct (OUP, 2009).

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