A unique, interdisciplinary and up-to-date treatment exploring human migration and its role in creating novel ecosystems over the long term.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between differ

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the o

In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the b

In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the