By Alexander H. Harcourt
ISBN-10: 1605987859
ISBN-13: 9781605987859
An leading edge and illuminating examine how the evolution of the human species has been formed through the area round us, from anatomy and body structure, to cultural range and inhabitants density.
Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples even more diversified than these at polar latitudes? Why can merely eastern peoples digest seaweed? How are darker pores and skin, sun, and fertility comparable? Did Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens ever interbreed? In Humankind, U. C. Davis professor Alexander Harcourt solutions those questions and extra, as he explains how the growth of the human species around the world and our interplay with our surroundings explains a lot approximately why people range from one zone of the area to a different, not just biologically, yet culturally.
What results produce other species had at the distribution of people world wide, and we, in flip, on their distribution? and the way have human populations affected every one other's geography, even life? For the 1st time in one ebook, Alexander Harcourt brings those subject matters jointly to assist us comprehend why we're, what we're, the place we are.
It seems that after one appears at humanity's growth worldwide, and within the organic reasons for our geographic range, we people are frequently simply one other primate. Humanity's distribution worldwide and the kind of organism we're this present day has been formed by means of an identical biogeographical forces that form different species.
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