The World Before Us

How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

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<p><b>'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' </b>Steve Brusatte, author of <i>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</i> <br><br><b>'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' </b>Ian Morris, author of <i>Why the West Rules - For Now</i><br><br> <b>50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. </b>There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, <i>Homo floresiensis</i>, <i>Homo luzonesis</i> and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham.</p><p>In <i>The World Before Us,</i> he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but <i>how</i> they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. This is the story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters.<br><br> <b>'Exciting' </b>David Abulafia, author of <i>The Boundless Sea</i><b><br><br> 'Remarkable' </b>Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of <i>Kindred</i><b><br><br> 'Thrilling' </b>David Reich, author of <i>Who We Are and How We Got Here</i><b><br><br> 'Brilliant' </b>Chris Gosden, author of <i>The History of Magic</i><br><br><b>'Gripping and fun' </b>Paul Collier, author of <i>The Bottom Billion</i><br><br><b>'Essential' </b>Barry Cunliffe, author of <i>The Scythians</i><br><br><b>'Profoundly entertaining' </b>Brian Fagan, author of <i>World Prehistory</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241989050

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

191 x 127 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)