Human Species

Genesis of the Human Species
Australian scientists said that analysis of DNA taken from 60,000-year-old local human remains showed no links with human ancestors from Africa, suggesting that Africa was not the only site of the genesis of the human species.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Background and beginnings in the Miocene
• Striding through the Pliocene
• Tools, hands, and heads in the Pliocene and Pleistocene
• Language, culture, and lifeways in the Pleistocene