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The humans who went extinct : why Neanderthals died out and we survived / Clive Finlayson

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

Online Ressource (xi, 273 p.) : ill., maps.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-259) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Finlayson, Clive, 1955- : Humans who went extinct. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-157117-6 (electronic bk.); 0-19-157117-2 (electronic bk.); 978-0-19-923918-4 (Cloth); 0-19-923918-5 (Cloth)

978-0-19-923918-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-19-923918-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-282-34654-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-282-34654-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 9786612346545 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 661234654X (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-923918-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 489212755 (aus SWB)     

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LOC-SH: Évolution sociale ; Homme de Néanderthal ; Homme -- Évolution ; Electronic books -- Electronic books ; Neanderthals ; Human evolution ; Social evolution ; Electronic books -- Electronic books ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Human evolution ; Neanderthals ; Social evolution

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our