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9780674892026
Any book by Clive Gamble is good news for those interested in a broader, integrated view of human evolution: it will be thoughtful, provocative, and enlightening. This latest volume is no exception. Written at least in part as a response to some of the hype surrounding the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, it asks the question of why people have turned out to be almost everywhere on the globe...Gamble has set himself a considerable task in seeking to weave a coherent cloth from the threads of a multitude of disciplines and subdisciplines, from archaeology through physical anthropology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction to evolutionary theory...There is much food for thought here, and [Timewalkers] represents the kind of effort that must be made to integrate the massive amount of information that we now have about evolution in general and the development, and context of development, of our own species in particular.Gamble, Clive is the author of 'Timewalkers The Prehistory of Global Colonization', published 1994 under ISBN 9780674892026 and ISBN 067489202X.
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