Neanderthals and Modern Humans
An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- Author: Clive Finlayson, University of Toronto
- Date Published: April 2004
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521820875
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The Neanderthals were a people native to Europe during the Pleistocene period, who became extinct between forty and thirty thousand years ago. Challenging the commonly held view that extinction was caused by the arrival of our ancestors, Clive Finlayson provides evidence that their extinction actually occurred because the Neanderthals could not adapt fast enough to changing ecological and environmental conditions, not their relationship with modern humans.
Read more- Provides fresh perspective on long-standing questions concerning Neanderthal extinction
- Provides a theoretical basis and a mechanism for understanding human evolution
- Gives a coherent basis for future work in this field
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"Clive Finlayson wrote Neanderthals and Modern Humans to promote a different view, that climate-not invaders with more sophisticated culture-condemned the Neanderthals...valuable for its synthesis of the climatic backdrop to later human evolution, which reminds us of the remarkable climatic challenges that our Pleistocene predecessors had to face." Science
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- Date Published: April 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521820875
- length: 266 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Human evolution in the Pleistocene
2. Biogeographical patterns
3. Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions
4. The modern human-Neanderthal problem
5. Comparative behaviour and ecology of Neanderthals and modern humans
6. The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last Glacial Cycle
7. The modern human colonization and the Neanderthal extinction
8. The survival of the weakest
References
Index.
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