From a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, an original and personal account of how the continent's ecosystems enabled human evolutionAfrica was the evolutionary cradle for Homo sapiens. But what was it about Africa's ecosystems that made human evolution possible? In Origin Afr...

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Main Author:	Kingdon, Jonathan (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press [2023]
Subjects:	SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution Human beings > Origin Human evolution > Africa
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	From a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, an original and personal account of how the continent's ecosystems enabled human evolutionAfrica was the evolutionary cradle for Homo sapiens. But what was it about Africa's ecosystems that made human evolution possible? In Origin Africa, Jonathan Kingdon, a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, sets human evolution within its African context, examining the natural conditions that enabled the rise of humans and the flowering of the continent, from preexisting geological factors and the broad-scale evolution of plants and animals to the emergence of hominids and beyond. Richly illustrated, the book features a wealth of photographs, artwork, and diagrams. Few people have the breadth of knowledge required to tackle this story and no one can tell it as well as Kingdon
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (472 pages) 50 color + 75 b/w illus
ISBN:	9780691249032
DOI:	10.1515/9780691249032