Ian Tattersall: Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
- Publisher:
- Griffin, 05/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137278302
- Item number:
- 1419003
- Volume:
- 290 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2013
- Weight:
- 320 g
- Format:
- 233 x 154 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 28.5.2013
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Short description
50, 000 years ago merely a blip in evolutionary time our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the Planet?
Description
The definitive account of how humans prevailed among other hominid species and became the indisputable masters of the planet.
Blurb
Fifty thousand years ago-merely a blip in evolutionary time-our Homo sapiens ancestors 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 allowed Homo sapiens to 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 that Homo sapiens acquired a winning combination of traits that was not the result of long-term evolutionary refinement. Instead, the final result emerged quickly, shocking our world and changing it forever.
Biography
Ian Tattersall ist Kurator der Abteilung für Anthropologie am American Museum of Natural History. Er gilt als führender Experte für die Untersuchung menschlicher Fossilien und ihre evolutionäre Einordnung und war an Freilandarbeiten zur Primatenforschung und Paläoanthropologie in ganz unterschiedlichen Ländern beteiligt, so in Madagaskar, Vietnam, Surinam, Jemen und Mauritius. Als Autor, Herausgeber und Coautor zeichnet er für zahlreiche Bücher verantwortlich.
