Details

Subject(s)

• Fossil hominids—Asia [Browse]
• Human beings—Origin [Browse]

Contributor

• Kaifu, Yōsuke, 1969- [Browse]

Translator

• Lewis, Dana (Translator) [Browse]

Series

• Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan) [More in this series]
• Japan library

Summary note

• Covers particularly Java Man (homo erectus) and "hobbits" (Homo floresiensis) with some treatment of Denisovans and the new finds from the Penghu Channel near Taiwan.
• "A book that will change how you think about humanity. Even as societies are beset with turmoil over insignificant human differences such a skin color, Homo sapiens are broadly homogeneous. We're all basically the same. What's more, we're the only human species alive. Yet it has not always been that way. Eons ago, there were many different species many different places. Not only the Peking Man and Cro-Magnons that school textbooks talk about but many more. It was, so to speak, "a world of diversity." Now it is just us. How did this happen? Who were these people? Where did they live? And how did such species diversity end up being just Homo sapiens? With an unequaled focus on events in Asia, this exciting work takes you along on the exploration and the research to answer these questions. Providing new information and new insights, it is a thoughtful look at humanity's evolutionary background." -- Publisher's description

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.

Language note

Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

• Uncovering Homo erectus in Asia
• Overview of human evolution
• The Java story
• Where it happens : putting science to work on Java man
• Grand entrance from an island cave
• Big news from the basin
• Up from Taiwan's ocean floor
• Lost in evolution.

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ISBN

• 9784866581330 ((hardcover))
• 4866581336 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2020436096

OCLC

1228150412

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