Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Macsci) - Hardcover

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Tattersall, Ian

 
9780230108752: Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Macsci)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 023010875X ISBN 13: 9780230108752
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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When homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans - homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo habilis who used tools; and of course the Neanderthals, who were brawny and strong. But shortly after their arrival, something happened that vaulted the species forward and made them the indisputable masters of the planet. This book is devoted to revealing just what that difference is. It explores how the physical traits and cognitive ability of homo sapiens distanced them from the rest of nature. Even more importantly, Masters of the Planet looks at how our early ancestors acquired these superior abilities; it shows that their strange and unprecedented mental facility is not, as most of us were taught, simply a basic competence that was refined over unimaginable eons by natural selection. Instead, it is an emergent capacity that was acquired quite recently and changed the world definitively.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ian Tattersall, PhD is a curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he co-curates the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. He is the acknowledged leader of the human fossil record, and has won several awards, including the Institute of Human Origins Lifetime Achievement Award. Tattersall has appeared on Charlie Roseand NPR's Science Friday and has written for Scientific American and Archaeology. He's been widely cited by the media, including The New York Times, BBC, MSNBC, and National Geographic. Tattersall is the author of Becoming Human, among others. He lives in New York City.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
023010875X
ISBN 13 
9780230108752
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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