Download or read book The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE written by Ian Tattersall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both fossil and archaeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family, Hominidae, through the appearance of Homo sapiens to the Agricultural Revolution.