Africa from MIS 6-2 : Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments Paperback / softback
Edited by Sacha C. Jones, Brian A. Stewart
Part of the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology series
Paperback / softback
Description
Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene.
Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the biological development and behavioral florescence of our species.
Modern human population dynamics, which involved multiple population expansions, dispersals, contractions and extinctions, played a central role in our species’ evolutionary trajectory.
So far, the demographic processes – modern human population sizes, distributions and movements – that occurred within Africa during this critical period have been consistently under-addressed.
The authors of this volume aim at (1) examining the impact of this glacial-interglacial- glacial cycle on human group sizes, movements and distributions throughout Africa; (2) investigating the macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underpinning our species’ anatomical and behavioral evolution; and (3) setting an agenda whereby Africa can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological palaeodemographic frameworks developed on other continents.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages, 39 Illustrations, color; 67 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 424 p. 106 illus., 39 i
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:25/04/2018
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- ISBN:9789402413687
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages, 39 Illustrations, color; 67 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 424 p. 106 illus., 39 i
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:25/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9789402413687
