02269nam a2200301 i 4500 OSt 20240121101905.0 240121t20222022enkabf e | 001 0 eng d 9780500252635 RM156.00 hardback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 599.938 599.938 PET R Pettitt, Paul, author. Homo Sapiens Rediscovered : THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION REWRITING OUR ORIGINS / Paul Pettitt London : Thames & Hudson, Limited, 2022 ©2022 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? This illuminating book explores how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Paul Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience in the field, Paul Pettitt immerses readers in the caves and rock shelters that provide evidence of our African origins, dispersals to the far reaches of Eurasia, Australasia and ultimately the Americas. Popular accounts of the evolution of Homo sapiens emphasize biomolecular research, notably genetics, but this book also draws from the wealth of information from specific excavations and artefacts, including the author's own investigations into the origins of art and how it evolved over its first 25,000 years. He focuses in particular on behaviour, using archaeological evidence to bring an intimate perspective on lives as they were lived in the almost unimaginably distant past. Human beings Origin Human evolution Excavations (Archaeology Human remains (Archaeology) ddc B 194645 194645 0 1 PPAK R 2024-01-29 0 R 599.938 PET A01810758 2024-01-29 11:59:11 B 0 1 SP R 2024-01-29 0 R 599.938 PET A01810759 2024-01-29 11:59:11 B