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

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ISBN-10: 1620405210

ISBN-13: 9781620405215

Edition: 2014

Authors: Chip Walter

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 4/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net , a former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. His articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Slate, and numerous other publications and websites. He is author of three books, most recently Thumbs, 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 at www.chipwalter.com .