Humans in the Making
Autor: | DuBois, Michel J F |
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EAN: | 9781786305848 |
Sachgruppe: | Biologie |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 272 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.12.2020 |
Untertitel: | In the Beginning Was Technique |
Schlagworte: | Science |
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The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.