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Human Biogeography /

In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that dela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harcourt, A. H. (Alexander H.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biogeography and humans : an introduction
  • Origins and dispersal
  • Climate, and hominin evolution and dispersal
  • Barriers to movement
  • How are we adapted to our environment?
  • Use of area
  • A biogeography of human diet and drugs
  • We affect our biogeography
  • Other species affect our biogeography
  • We affect other species' biogeography.