Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good 1st. 800pp.incl.index; HB blue w/gilt; slight rub w/lt. wear on edges; clean,tight pgs. DJ red w/white-photocover; slight rub w/lt.wear on edges. 'Biological' papers presented at conference held at Cambridge (England), March 22-26, 1987. illus. Noted for providing one of the most exhaustive and wide-ranging accounts of modern human origins on a world-wide scale.

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Title: The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0691085390
ISBN 13: 9780691085395
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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The edited and updated synthesis of a conference (on title) held at Cambridge U. in 1987, the volume covers the evolutionary origins and geographical dispersal of biologically modern human populations (i.e. Homo sapiens sapiens ), presenting the biological, anatomical, and genetic evidence for human origins, and the archaeological evidence for the development of modern behavioral patterns. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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"There is little doubt that this is an important book for all paleaoanthropologists and archaeologists--it is international in its scope and broad in its treatment of the exciting issues central to modern thinking in these fields."--Nature

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