The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

by Pat Shipman

Book Overview

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe--descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975413
• ISBN13: 9780674975415
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"