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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harcourt, A. H. (Alexander H.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Physical anthropology.
Biogeography.
Anthropology, Physical
Anthropologie physique.
Biogéographie.
physical anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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