How humans behaved before they behaved like humans
Henry Gee, 31 October 1996
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
by Chris Stringer and Robin McKie.
Cape, 267 pp., £18.99, March 1996,0 224 03771 4 Show More
by Chris Stringer and Robin McKie.
Cape, 267 pp., £18.99, March 1996,
Humans before Humanity
by Robert Foley.
Blackwell, 238 pp., £25, December 1995,0 631 17087 1 Show More
by Robert Foley.
Blackwell, 238 pp., £25, December 1995,
The Day before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History
by Colin Tudge.
Cape, 390 pp., £18.99, January 1996,0 224 03772 2 Show More
by Colin Tudge.
Cape, 390 pp., £18.99, January 1996,
The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins
by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman.
Weidenfeld, 270 pp., £18.99, April 1996,0 297 81670 5 Show More
by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman.
Weidenfeld, 270 pp., £18.99, April 1996,
The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins
by James Shreeve.
Viking, 369 pp., £20, May 1996,0 670 86638 5 Show More
by James Shreeve.
Viking, 369 pp., £20, May 1996,
“... suggest that long-range interchange was necessary to keep culture going. This kind of interaction, James Shreeve suggests in The Neanderthal Enigma, explains much of modern human behaviour, especially the tendency towards notions of tribal self-definition. Neanderthals did not range far from home, so never developed similar links with their own kind. As ... ”
