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anthropology books
Author_Alexander Harcourt
beginning of mankind
biology and anthropology
biology and geography
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climate change
cultural diversity
earth and humans
earth sciences
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evolution
evolution of man
evolution of mankind
evolutionary anthropologist
geography
human anatomy
human cultures
human distribution
human diversity
human evolution
human interaction
human origins
human physiology
human population
human primate
human species
physical anthropology
population density
primates and apes
Product details
- ISBN 9780520272118
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating people. He explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. The book closes with chapters on how human cultures have affected each other's geographic distributions, how non-human species have influenced human distribution, and how humans have reduced the ranges of many other species while increasing the ranges of others. Throughout, Harcourt compares what we understand of human biogeography to non-human primate biogeography.
Alexander H. Harcourt is Professor Emeritus in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Davis. He is the coauthor of Gorilla Society and coeditor of Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals.
