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Africa

Paperback • 1999 • English

Africa: A Biography of the Continent

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In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago. Out of Africa, the world's most ancient and stable landmass, Homo sapiens dispersed across the globe. And yet the continent that gave birth to human history has long been woefully misunderstood and mistreated by the rest of the world. In a book as splen...Show more

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9780679738695

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Africa

Format

Paperback

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