Overview
- The book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution.
- This book about what it means to be human is heavily referenced, with a bibliography of many hundreds of scientific entries.
- The relevant archaeological, paleoanthropological and genetic evidence is painstakingly assembled.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)
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“Bednarik (International Federation of Rock Art Organizations), an Australia-based scholar, has spent his enormously productive career challenging perceived wisdom. … The author assembles the evidence and arguments for an alternative theory of human origins. The theory includes a multiregional origin of humans from robust hominids and so challenges the ‘out of Africa’ model of a single origin from gracile hominids. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (B. K. Hall, Choice, Vol. 49 (6), February, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert G. Bednarik, born in Vienna but an Australian since 1970, contradicts norms. He has undertaken numerous expeditions crossing the sea on rafts built with stone tools, but he cannot swim; he has produced 1165 academic publications, including many books, but has no formal education; he edits three scientific journals and two series of monographs, but not in his native language. As a complete autodidact, he regards himself as ignorant as did Socrates. Consequently his principal interest is the origin of the human ability to create constructs of reality, and in a wide variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human Condition
Authors: Robert G. Bednarik
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9353-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-9352-6Published: 01 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2982-1Published: 15 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9353-3Published: 28 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 207
Topics: Evolutionary Biology