Clive Finlayson, Finlayson Clive

Neanderthals and Modern Humans

An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides evidence that climate change drove Neanderthal extinction, not competition with our own ancestors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121002
• ISBN-10: 0521121000
• Artikelnr.: 27065528

Autorenporträt

CLIVE FINLAYSON is Director, Museums and Heritage in the Government of Gibraltar, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
1. Human evolution in the Pleistocene
2. Biogeographical patterns
3. Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions
4. The modern human-Neanderthal problem
5. Comparative behaviour and ecology of Neanderthals and modern humans
6. The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last Glacial Cycle
7. The modern human colonization and the Neanderthal extinction
8. The survival of the weakest
References
Index.