The World Before Us: How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
by Tom Higham
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What did the human world look like before Homo sapiens became the sole surviving human species? Drawing on breakthroughs in radiocarbon dating, ancient DNA, and archaeological science, this book reconstructs the lives, movements, and encounters of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other remarkable human relatives who shared the planet with us. It explores how these discoveries are transforming our understanding of human origins—and revealing that traces of these vanished populations still live on in our own genes. Accessible and richly informed, the narrative presents human evolution as a complex story of diversity, adaptation, interaction, and survival.
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paperback
Viking
Published Mar 1, 2021
320 pages
ISBN: 9780241440681
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First Published
2021
Language
eng
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