Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer

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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

By Chris Stringer

Web edition: April 6, 2012
Print edition: April 21, 2012; Vol.181 #8 (p. 30)

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A paleoanthropologist argues that multiple early human groups arose and competed in Africa.

Times Books, 2012, 320 p., $28

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But not a single hominid evolved from New World Primates? We have footprints dating to 1.3 million so lets just continue to ignore the fact that we still do not know how long humans have been in the Americas. A solution to our sudden arrival in the Old World as a modern human species may lie in openly contiplating the hints of great antiquity for the Native Americans from genetic and linguistic data. That the Upper Paleolithic evolved in the Old Wolrd while a pre-Paleolithic stage (pre-Clovis) continued in isolation might help in accepting this archaeological signature as evidence of the nodal behavioral signature for our origins.

Alvah Hicks

Apr. 11, 2012 at 2:55pm

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