The Domestication of Humans

ISBN-13: 9781032237329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Robert G. Bednarik

Opis

The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not to a speciation event in Africa but the unintended self-domestication of humans. This book is suitable for anyone interested in how and why we became the species that we are today

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the empirical context

2. The gracilisation of humans

3. Evolution and pathologies

4. Human self-domestication

5. The unstoppable advance of exograms

6. Effects of the domestication hypothesis

O autorze

Robert G. Bednarik is a Professor at the International Centre for Rock Art Dating, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China. He has served as Convener/CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations continuously since 1988.