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Alterity and Human Evolution

Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation

Edited by Oscar Moro Abadía and Martin Porr

406 pages, 32 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-464-4 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-465-1 eBook Not Yet Published


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“I am quite simply stunned by this book… I feel certain that this book will become a landmark volume .” • Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton

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Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, Alterity and Human Evolution contributes to current debates on human evolution. In a political climate marked by movements such as Black Lives Matter and policies like Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168 against ‘gender ideology’, this volume brings together a group of leading scholars in archeology, paleoanthropology and human evolution to examine how narratives of human origins intersect with issues of race, gender, and anthropocentrism. Drawing on postcolonial and critical frameworks from the Humanities and Social Sciences, it interrogates key foundational concepts and assumptions underpinning evolutionary discourses.

Oscar Moro Abadía is a Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Some of his recent publications include Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization: Rock Art in the 21st Century Series (with Margaret Conkey and Josephine McDonald, Springer, 2024) and Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

Martin Porr is Associate Professor and Future Fellow at School of Social Sciences, Archaeology, The University of Western Australia. Some of his recent publications include One World Anthropology and Beyond. A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold (with Niels Weidtmann; Routledge, 2024) and Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches, and Indigenous Knowledges (with O. Moro Abadía; Routledge, 2021).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyArchaeology


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