Neanderthals and modern humans : an ecological and evolutionary perspective
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Finlayson, Clive
Year of Publication: 2004
Edition: 1 edition (April 5, 2004)
Number of Pages: 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
City: Cambridge UK, New York NY
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 0521820871
Keywords: archaic hominids, bioclimatic stages, colonisation events, herbivore meat, heterogeneous belt, last glacial cycle, mammalian herbivores multiregional model interm, modern human behaviour modern human origins, oxygen isotope stage, recent human evolution
Abstract:
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.
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