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23%OFFJohn F. Hoffecker - Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal - 9780231160766 - V9780231160766
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Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal

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Description for Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal Hardback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 75 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMP; JMR; PSAJ; PSAK; PSX; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Modern Humans is about the most recent-and perhaps the most important-phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than a quarter of a million years ago and their subsequent spread throughout the world. Most of the features that render living human beings unique among all forms of life evolved or developed with Homo sapiens, and in Modern Humans, John F. Hoffecker argues that humans represent a major transition in evolution with respect to the storage, transmission, and translation of information, as well as a quantum leap in living-system complexity. Modern Humans ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160766
SKU
V9780231160766
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About John F. Hoffecker
John F. Hoffecker is a fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has conducted field research in Alaska and Eastern Europe and is the author of Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe (2002); A Prehistory of the North (2005); (with Scott A. Elias) Human Ecology of Beringia (Columbia, 2007); and ... Read more

Reviews for Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal
Essential reading for anyone involved in human origins research, Modern Humans is a detailed, fact-dense work.
John J. Shea
Journal of Anthropological Research
An erudite, meticulously researched, and well-presented account of the Spencerian process as applied to deep history.
Clive Gamble
American Antiquity
Every so often, a benchmark volume is needed to slow things ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Modern Humans: Their African Origin and Global Dispersal


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