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The World Before Us: The New Science Behind our Human Origins

byTom Higham

In The World Before Us, Tom Higham presents a historical account centered on the New Science Behind our Human Origins. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of science and social science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

Aug 24, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780300259223