Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009K4YLU2
Publish date: January 29th 2013
Publisher: Walker Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Book Club,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Animals,
Anthropology,
Evolution
The author does a very good job at explaining why us humans are so special. He looks at our journey from the ape to humans and focuses in on the development of our brain and how our long childhood past birth helps explain how we became human. Our ability to symbolically represent abstract objects ...
Up to date review of our understanding of Homo Sapiens evolution. Loved this book.
Very enjoyable description of the various -- currently 27 -- different "human" species discovered so far. How they are similar, how they differ, how they are reflected in modern humans. I did notice occasionally a lack of supporting evidence for his descriptions of various traits in other species,...
12 years ago
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