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A Pocket History of Human Evolution

How We Became Sapiens

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A Pocket History of Human Evolution

By: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
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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.

©2019 Silvana Condemi and François Savatier (P)2019 Tantor Ancient Archaeology Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Science Africa Ancient Humans
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I enjoyed this very much because it is exactly how it is described a pocket history a very easy 3 hours and something to dive into not too deep. good fun.

good fun

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Highly fascinating listen for my Sunday morning. will definitely be returning to this author.

very interesting

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I really enjoyed this book. I have learned even more about Human Evolution. It is easy to follow and great narrator.
Highly recommended !

Excellent & very interesting !

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Really enjoyed the bioanth side of it, but from the upper Palaeolithic onwards it presented debates from a somewhat one sided perspective. The last two chapters didn’t seem very relevant.

Great until the last few chapters

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