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The Urban Cliff Revolution: New Findings on the Origins and Evolution of Human Habitats

  • Douglas Larson,
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside: 2004. 272 pp. $28.95 1550418483 | ISBN: 1-550-41848-3

A wide range of evolutionary disciplines, including archaeology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, biology, molecular genetics and quaternary science, have tried to find answers to this question, which often leads to a search for the original environmental setting to help explain our present condition. The search is expressed in many ways but tends to encompass the garden of Eden, cradles of human civilization, evolutionary adaptation and E. O. Wilson's biophilia, the biological basis of attraction.

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  1. Clive Gamble: co-director of the British Academy Centenary Project, Lucy to Language: the Archaeology of the Social Brain.

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