Masters of the Planet The Search for Our Human Origins

Name: Masters of the Planet The Search for Our Human Origins
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ISBN: 9781137278302

ISBN-10: 1137278307

ISBN-13: 9781137278302

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ian Tattersall

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Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—ourHomo sapiensancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowedHomo sapiensto become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special. Surveying a vast field from initial bipedality to language and intelligence, Tattersall argues thatHomo sapiensacquired a winning…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 5/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.32" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Major Events in Human Evolution


Prologue



Ancient Origins



The Rise of the Bipedal Apes



Early Hominid Lifestyles and the Interior World



Australopith Variety



Striding Out



Life on the Savanna



Out of Africa … and Back



The First Cosmopolitan Hominid



Ice Ages and Early Europeans



Who Were The Neanderthals?



Archaic and Modern



Enigmatic Arrival



The Origin of Symbolic Behavior



In the Beginning was the Word


Coda


Acknowledgments


Notes and Bibliography


Index