| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
02 Cover Page; 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website; 04 CONTENTS; 05 FOREWORD; 06 PREFACE; 07 CONTRIBUTORS; 08 Ch-01 Tobias 2C; 09 Ch-02 Broadhurst, Crawford & Munro 2C; 10 Ch-03 Kuliukas 2C- ak removed dup para on p 53; 11 Ch-04 Verhaegen, Munro, Vaneechoutte 2C; 12 Ch-05 Munro & Verhaegen 2C; 13 Ch-06 Kuliukas & Morgan 2C; 14 Ch-07 Schagatay_3_; 15 Ch-08 Williams M 2C; 16 Ch-09 Odent 2C; 17 Ch-10 Gislén & Schagatay 2C; 18 Ch-11 Chan 2C; 19 Ch-12 Vaneechoutte, Munro, Verhaegen 2C; 20 Ch-13 Ellis 2C; 21 Ch-14 Wiliams T 2C; 22 Ch-15 Kuliukas 2C; 23 Index |
| Summary |
The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago, in 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology assumes, but have adapted to live at the edge between land and water, gathering both terrestrial and aquatic foods. This eBook is an up-to-date collection of the views of the most important protagonists of this long-neglected theory of huma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
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Human evolution
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vaneechoutte, Mario, editor
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Kuliukas, Algis, editor
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Verhaegen, Marc, editor
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| ISBN |
9781608052448 |
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1608052443 |
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