Adam's Ancestors

by David N. Livingstone

Book Overview

Winner of the Selection for Professional Reading List of the U.S. Marine Corps

Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet.

In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of non-adamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421400650
• ISBN13: 9781421400655
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher