The Complete World of Human Evolution by Chris Stringer

Lone Survivors is an examination of the major breakthroughs of the last thirty years, with new evidence and new kinds of evidence, including the advances in recovering and analyzing DNA from ancient fossils. Chris Stringer is one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, and one of the leading proponents of the 'Out of Africa' theory, proposing a recent African origin for Homo sapiens in eastern or southern Africa, who then expanded out of Africa, replacing the archaic humans, including Neanderthals, in the rest of Eurasia. These are enduring human questions, and we are piecing the answers together out of bits of bone and stone tools and recovered DNA. Where does our species come from? Who were our ancestors? Lone Survivors will be the definitive account of who and what we were, and will change perceptions about our origins and about what it means to be human. He shows how the most sensational recent fossil findings fit with his model, and he questions previous concepts (including his own) of modernity and how it evolved. Stringer draws on analyses of old and new fossils from around the world, DNA studies of Neanderthals (using the full genome map) and other species, and recent archeological digs to unveil his new theory. Stringer's new theory, based on archeological and genetic evidence, holds that distinct humans coexisted and competed across the African continent-exchanging genes, tools, and behavioral strategies.

In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient ancestors in different parts of the world) and his own 'out of Africa' theory, which maintains that humans emerged rapidly in one small part of Africa and then spread to replace all other humans within and outside the continent. A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be

The Complete World of Human Evolution by Chris Stringer