Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Christa Lewis ,
Silvana Condemi ,
Francois Savatier
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Library Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.159kg
ISBN: 9781665205283
ISBN 10: 1665205288
Publication Date: 29 October 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
The narrator of over 150 audiobooks, Christa Lewis is a 2019 Voice Arts Award-winning narrator, a 2018 Audie Award finalist, and a 2018 Listener's Choice finalist. She has been featured in AudioFile magazine and earned multiple Earphones Awards for recordings that have become Audible bestsellers in YA and literary fiction. Christa is a classically trained actress. She got her start as a newsreader for international broadcaster DW-TV, and is featured on hundreds of cartoons, museum guides, and documentaries. She also regularly contributes to award-winning podcasts. Christa speaks accent-free German fluently and can offer a variety of accents and dialects. Silvana Condemi, a paleoanthropologist, is the research director of CNRS, the largest French public scientific research organization, at Aix-Marseille University. She is the coauthor, with Francois Savatier, of A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens. Francois Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the coauthor, with Silvana Condemi, of A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens.
