TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higham,Thomas
TI  - The world before us: how science is revealing a new story of our human origins 
SN  - 9780241989050 (pbk.) :
AV  - GN282 
U1  - 569.9 HIG 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - Popular Science
KW  - eflch
KW  - Popular Science and Nature
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Prehistory
KW  - thema
KW  - General & world history
KW  - European history
KW  - Asian history
KW  - African history
N1  - Originally published: London: Viking, 2021
N2  - Fifty-thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, who occupied Europe, the Near East and parts of Eurasia; the enigmatic Homo floresiensis, or 'Hobbits', from the island of Flores in Indonesia; and Homo luzonesis, found in the Philippines, and less than four feet high. And then there are the elusive Denisovans, discovered thanks to cutting-edge science in a cave in Siberia in 2010. At the forefront of this groundbreaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In 'The World Before Us' he follows the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed these discoveries to be made and enabled us to better predict not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived
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