LEADER 04605nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910778544403321 005 20230207230626.0 010 $a1-383-03712-4 010 $a1-282-34654-7 010 $a9786612346545 010 $a0-19-157117-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000808182 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24081697 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000662784 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12277917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000662784 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10721564 035 $a(PQKB)11001824 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239520 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240800 035 $a(PQKB)11324453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348633 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL234654 035 $a(OCoLC)489212755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472254 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000808182 100 $a20090514d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe humans who went extinct$b[electronic resource] $ewhy Neanderthals died out and we survived /$fClive Finlayson 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (256 p. )$cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-923919-3 311 $a0-19-923918-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue : when climate changed the course of history -- The road to extinction is paved with good intentions -- Once we were not alone -- Failed experiments -- Stick to what you know best -- Being in the right place at the right time -- If only . . . -- Africa in Europe : a Mediterranean serengeti -- One small step for man . . . -- Forever opportunists -- The pawn turned player -- Epilogue : children of chance. 330 $aNeanderthals, no less than another kind of human, almost made it, finally dying out just 28,000 years ago. What caused us to survive while they went extinct? Ecology holds the clues, argues Clive Finlayson. It comes down to climate change & chance. There was little in it, & things could have turned out quite differently. 330 $bJust 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our own ancestors. In this book, he presents a wider view of the events that led to the migration of the moderns into Europe, what might have happened during the contact of the two populations, and what finally drove the Neanderthals to extinction. It is a view that considers climate, ecology, and migrations of populations, as well as culture and interaction. His conclusion is that the destiny of the Neanderthals and the Moderns was sealed by ecological factors and contingencies. It was a matter of luck that we survived and spread while the Neanderthals dwindled and perished. Had the climate not changed in our favour some 50 million years ago, things would have been very different. There is much current research interest in Neanderthals, much of it driven by attempts to map some of their DNA. But it's not just a question of studying the DNA. The rise and fall of populations is profoundly moulded by the larger scale forces of climate and ecology. And it is only by taking this wider view that we can fully understand the course of events that led to our survival and their demise. The fact that Neanderthals survived until virtually yesterday makes our relationship with them and their tragedy even more poignant. They almost made it, after all. 606 $aNeanderthals 606 $aHuman evolution 606 $aSocial evolution 615 0$aNeanderthals. 615 0$aHuman evolution. 615 0$aSocial evolution. 676 $a303.4 676 $a569.986 700 $aFinlayson$b Clive$f1955-$01487000 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778544403321 996 $aThe humans who went extinct$93838049 997 $aUNINA