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The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE /
To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | New Oxford world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both the fossil and archeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution. He begins with an accessible overview of evolutionary theory and then explores the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199721719 0199721718 9781435642539 1435642538 1281341878 9781281341877 |