A Pocket History of Human Evolution
How We Became Sapiens
Published on 1. November 2019
160 pages
978-1-61519-605-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Silvana Condemi, a world-leading paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the coauthor of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: A Biped Descends from an Ape
- CHAPTER 2: Culture, the Evolutionary Accelerator
- CHAPTER 3: My Big Head (Almost) Killed Me
- CHAPTER 4: What Obligate Bipedalism Has Made Us
- CHAPTER 5: Hunting Arouses All of the Senses
- CHAPTER 6: The First Conquest of the Planet
- CHAPTER 7: And Homo sapiens Emerged . . .
- CHAPTER 8: The Spread of Homo sapiens Over the Entire Planet
- CHAPTER 9: The Emergence of the Tribe
- CHAPTER 10: War and the State
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors
- Back Cover
