A Pocket History of Human Evolution
eBook - ePub

A Pocket History of Human Evolution

How We Became Sapiens

  1. 131 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Pocket History of Human Evolution

How We Became Sapiens

About this book

Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are.

Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the Denisovans—and confirmed that crossbreeding with them (and Neanderthals) made Homo sapiens who we are today.
A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today—from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor—and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.

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Information

Publisher
The Experiment
Year
2019
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781615196050
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: A Biped Descends from an Ape
  3. Chapter 2: Culture, the Evolutionary Accelerator
  4. Chapter 3: My Big Head (Almost) Killed Me
  5. Chapter 4: What Obligate Bipedalism Has Made Us
  6. Chapter 5: Hunting Arouses All of the Senses
  7. Chapter 6: The First Conquest of the Planet
  8. Chapter 7: And Homo sapiens Emerged . . .
  9. Chapter 8: The Spread of Homo sapiens Over the Entire Planet
  10. Chapter 9: The Emergence of the Tribe
  11. Chapter 10: War and the State
  12. Conclusion
  13. References
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Index
  16. About the Authors

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