African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity

Stringer, Christopher; McKie, Robin

ISBN 10: 0805027599 / ISBN 13: 9780805027594

Published by Henry Holt, New York, NY, 1997

About this Item

New York, NY, Henry Holt, 1997. First American edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over black matte paper-covered boards, black and white illustrations throughout, 282 pp. By revealing the fount of all humanity while also exposing one of the most important and bitter debates in contemporary science, African Exodus reaches beyond paleoanthropology to politics and culture to answer The Bell Curve. New in new dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # EM-B1171-07

Bibliographic Details

• Title: African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
• Publisher: Henry Holt, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805027599
• ISBN 13: 9780805027594
• Binding: Quarter Cloth
• Edition: First American
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History
  • Nonfiction
  • Science and Nature

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Synopsis

A controversial theory contends that all modern humans share a single racial stock and that modern humankind emerged out of Africa less than one hundred thousand years ago and replaced all other human populations that had walked the earth. 12,500 first printing.

About the Author

Chris Stringer is the head of the Human Origins Group at the Natural History Museum in London. In 1994 he provided the key interpretations of fossil remains of the largest early human ever found in Britain. Robin McKie is the Science Editor of The Observer.