Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart Maslin Mark A.Paperback / softback
Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart Maslin Mark A.Paperback / softback Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. Yet Homo sapiens currently…
Specifikacia Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart Maslin Mark A.Paperback / softback
Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart Maslin Mark A.Paperback / softback
Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons.
So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet?Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape?
Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage. In this book Mark Maslin brings together the latest insights from hominin fossils