Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

by Clive Finlayson

Book Overview

Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521121000
• ISBN13: 9780521121002
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"