Name: The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart (en Inglés)
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Author: Maslin, Mark
ISBN: 9780198704539

portada The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Maslin

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.3 x 12.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780198704539

Categorías

Antropología
Evolución

The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart (en Inglés)

Mark Maslin (Autor) · Oxford University Press, USA · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart (en Inglés)"

Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. 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 have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. 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. 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 and combines them with evidence of the changing landscape of the East African Rift Valley to show how all these factors led to selection pressures that favoured our ultrasocial brains. Astronomy, geology, climate, and landscape all had a part to play in making East Africa the cradle of humanity and allowing us to dominate the planet.