This volume argues that the ecological and environmental changes that may have occurred at the same time may have been the vital cause of the evolution from ape to modern human. It offers theories as how the evolution of the gorilla may be tied to a long period of global cooling; how the drying up of the Mediterranean may have decreased the salinity of the northern Atlantic, lowering its freezing point and culminating in the Ice Age; and how waves of climatic aridity led to the formation of the deserts and may have been responsible for pushing hominids out of Africa, not once but several times. The book aims to shed new light on humankind's irrevocable ties to its environment.
- ISBN10 0465018033
- ISBN13 9780465018031
- Publish Date 9 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 May 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English