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Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived

Autor Chip Walter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2014
Over the past 180 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. What enabled us to survive when all the others were shown the evolutionary door? Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's capricious ways we stand here today, the planet's most dominant species. Drawing on a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he reveals how a rare evolutionary phenomenon led to the uniquely long childhoods that make us so resourceful and emotionally complex. Walter explains how the evolution of our highly social nature has shaped our moral (and immoral) behavior. He also plumbs the roots of our creativity and investigates why we became self-aware in ways that no other animal is. Along the way,Last Ape Standingprofiles the mysterious "others" who evolved with us-the Neanderthals of Europe, the "hobbits" of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the recently discovered Red Deer Cave people of China, who died off just as we stood on the brink of civilization eleven thousand years ago.Last Ape Standingis evocative science writing at its best-a witty, engaging and accessible story that explores the evolutionary events that molded us into the remarkably unique creatures we are.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620405215
ISBN-10: 1620405210
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 16p B&W insert and art t/o.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Author is well connected in the science world:Knows or has interviewed Nobel laureates Luis Alvarez, Roger Kornberg and Gerry Edelman; and Eric Drexler, Kip Thorne, Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, Mike Gazzaniga, Donald Johanson, and Lynn Margulis.

Notă biografică

Chip Walteris the founder of the popular websiteAllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. His articles have appeared in theBoston Globe,theEconomist,theWall Street Journal,Scientific American,Slate,and numerous other publications and websites. He is author of three books, most recentlyThumbs, Toes, and Tears, and his writing has been published in eight languages. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife Cyndy and their four children.Visit his website atwww.chipwalter.com.

Recenzii

[An] engaging account.shed[s] a fascinating light on our evolutionary success.
[An]engrossing, up-to-date account of human evolution.
[A] captivating and informative field trip through man's paleontological past.an exceptionally well-written overview of man's evolutionary history as well as an accessible guide to the underappreciated field of paleoanthropology.
An intriguing scenario of why Homo sapiens is the Last Ape Standing.
Nearly every page offers something that will surprise or intrigue you.

Descriere

Twenty-seven human species evolved but only one remains. How did that happen?