| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-259) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : when climate changed the course of history -- The road to extinction is paved with good intentions -- Once we were not alone -- Failed experiments -- Stick to what you know best -- Being in the right place at the right time -- If only ... -- Africa in Europe : a Mediterranean serengeti -- One small step for man ... -- Forever opportunists -- The pawn turned player -- Epilogue : children of chance. |
| Summary |
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Neanderthals.
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Neanderthals. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finlayson, Clive, 1955- Humans who went extinct. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199239184 (DLC) 2009020070 (OCoLC)335695009 |
| ISBN |
9780191571176 (electronic book) |
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0191571172 (electronic book) |
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9780199239184 (Cloth) |
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0199239185 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9786612346545 |
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