I would give this 2.5 stars. Some new stuff, lots of old stuff and rather a lot of vagueness. I still have no clue why the hunter-gatherer hold the key to our survival.Edit: Grandma like this book a lot.
After reading Wells’ The Journey of Man and loving it, I couldn’t wait to dig into Pandora’s Seed, which promised to illuminate how “advanced” the hunter-gatherer societies were and what modern man can learn from these times for sustainability. Where there were a plethora of interesting ideas and fa...
I have known of National Geographic’s genome project for years, so when I learned of this companion book, I bought it immediately. Working my way through the first few pages, I got a bit alarmed. Just between us, I all but royally flunked every science class I ever took from Grade 3 onward, and this...
This is very different from what I've been reading. This is the first non-fiction book I've read in a while. The start of it made me feel like I was in a biology class and the topic of the day is genetics. Sorry, but I knew all of it. I'm sure not everyone who's read this book would know all of it, ...
Spencer Wells argues in Pandora’s Seed that there are two critical events in humanity’s (relatively) recent past that have pushed us onto the path leading to modern civilization. Two cusps that have led to the marvels we enjoy today, as well as the horrors (which explains the book’s subtitle: “The U...
Updated - 7/28/13 - see link at bottomIn a 2006 interview with Conservation Biology, geneticist, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and head of NatGeo’s Genographic Project, Spencer Wells said that in various ways people todayare mismatched with the culture we’ve created in the last 10,000 y...
One of the best books that I have read on the origins of mankind and how we all came to be in our many forms. Great reading, made lucid for the non-scientist. Very much recommended.For the complete review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_148265930372
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