1st Edition

The Domestication of Humans

By Robert G. Bednarik Copyright 2020
260 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not to a speciation event in Africa, but to the unintended self-domestication of humans. This alternative account of human origins provides the reader with a comprehensive explanation of all features defining our species that is consistent with all the available evidence. These... Read more

1. Introduction: the empirical context

2. The gracilisation of humans

3. Evolution and pathologies

4. Human self-domestication

5. The unstoppable advance of exograms

6. Effects of the domestication hypothesis

Biography

Robert G. Bednarik is a Professor at the International Centre for Rock Art Dating, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China. He has served as Convener/CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations continuously since 1988.