Humans Before Humanity

Robert Andrew Foley

ISBN 10: 0631205284 / ISBN 13: 9780631205289

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1997

About this Item

This work looks at the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before and, in some cases, after the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago. It also investigates how, when, where and why the modern human species appeared and in due course became dominant. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372. . 1997. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Humans Before Humanity
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631205284
• ISBN 13: 9780631205289
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book recreates the lost world of the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before, and in some cases after, the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago.

About the Author

Robert Foley is Director of the Duckworth Laboratory and a lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College. His other books include Another Unique Species, Hominid Evolution and Community Ecology, and Comparative Socioecology (co-editor with V. Standen). In addition he has published numerous papers in scientific journals on human evolution and palaeoecology, and contributed to radio and television programmes on evolution.