Author: Ian Tattersall
Publisher: Cortina Raffaello
Necklace: Science and Ideas
Year edition: 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages of the printed version: 200 p.
EAN: 9788860302724
€ 19,50
How did we become who we are? Describing the fossil and archaeological record in a clear and pleasant way, Ian Tattersall reconstructs human evolution from the family Hominidae to the affirmation of Homo sapiens. This volume thus takes us back to the distant world of those bizarre and strange "monkeys" from which we ourselves originate. After an elegant presentation of Darwin's conception of evolution, it deals with the emergence of gender Homo, of the advantages of bipedalism, of the progressive increase in brain volume, of the manufacture of tools, of the birth of language and of symbolic thinking. It is a fascinating story still full of mysteries (why did the so-called Neanderthal man become extinct?) and delicate questions (how was religious sentiment born?), which culminates in the transition from hunter-gatherer groups to agriculturally based societies , up to the first written testimonies.
