The Rise of Homo Sapiens

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405152532
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of Homo Sapiens by : Frederick L. Coolidge

Download or read book The Rise of Homo Sapiens written by Frederick L. Coolidge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Human Thinking presents a provocative theory about the evolution of the modern mind based on archaeological evidence and the working memory model of experimental psychologist Alan Baddeley. The book explains the mystery of the disappearance of the Neandertals and the ascendancy of modern Homo sapiens - and whether this was at the expense of the Neandertals. The Rise of Homo Sapiens has been written to introduce scientists and students to the fascinating interface between the worlds of archaeology and cognitive science, and argues that the evolution of modern thinking occurred in two major leaps; the advent of Homo erectus over 1.5 million years ago, and a final enhancement of working memory capacity sometime within the last 200,000 years. The authors argue that highly ritualized burials, personal ornaments, cave art and highly creative figurines, and age and gender divisions of economic labor, all of which were characteristic of Homo sapiens about 30,000 years ago, were clearly products of their cognitive functions, e.g., central executive functions. Neandertals, living at the same time, had virtually none of these cultural products despite larger brains! This is the first book to explain elaborately how thinking differences between Homo sapiens and Neandertals may have accounted for the ultimate demise of Neandertals. Cognitive archaeology is a quickly growing discipline yet archaeologists have been slow to adopt current theories, models, and findings within contemporary cognitive science. The Rise of Homo Sapiens will serve as a unique introduction and primer into both disciplines.

Sapiens

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062316109
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Sapiens by : Yuval Noah Harari

Download or read book Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.

Ancestors

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ISBN 13 : 9780679420606
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancestors by : Donald C. Johanson

Download or read book Ancestors written by Donald C. Johanson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned paleoanthropologist and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Donald Johanson attempts to solve the mystery of human evolution using new evidence uncovered on his recent forays into the fossil-rich regions of Eastern Africa. Companion volume to the upcoming Nova series. 175 illus. Maps.

Masters of the Planet

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 023010875X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Masters of the Planet by : Ian Tattersall

Download or read book Masters of the Planet written by Ian Tattersall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning Museum of Natural History curator and author of Becoming Human traces the evolution of homo sapiens to demonstrate how they prevailed among other early humans because of their unique cognitive ability, in an account that also explains how their superior mental abilities were acquired. 40,000 first printing.

Human Evolution

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 1451546084
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Evolution by : Jon Schiller

Download or read book Human Evolution written by Jon Schiller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your author decided to write this book about Human Evolution after seeing a Science Program about Evolution on KCET, the Public Service TV Station in the Los Angeles area. I was impressed with the amount of research going on in this area trying to find out where we, Homosapiens, came from. I decided to use the Google and Yahoo search engines to find out the latest probes which I used for this book. I have included the many reference sources so the reader can visit these Internet accounts to keep up with what is happening after this book is published. In other words, this is a snapshot-in-time report of what is happening research-wise at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century.

Origins Reconsidered

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385467923
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Origins Reconsidered by : Richard E. Leakey

Download or read book Origins Reconsidered written by Richard E. Leakey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

In Search of Homo Sapiens

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Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865165328
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of Homo Sapiens by : Pavol Hudík

Download or read book In Search of Homo Sapiens written by Pavol Hudík and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Homo Sapiens represents the crystallization of the thinking and writing of the Slovak intelligentsia. For the first time the English-speaking world will see the output of some of the most prominent Slovak thinkers and writers, their reflections on contemporary life, world politics, personal lifestyles, and social ideologies. A welcome contribution to current literature, social commentary, and philosophy of life.

Proceedings of the British Academy

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ISBN 13 : 9780197262467
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy by : British Academy

Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy written by British Academy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homo Deus

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062464353
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Homo Deus by : Yuval Noah Harari

Download or read book Homo Deus written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

Humans

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512110913
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Humans by : Wallace Shaunfield

Download or read book Humans written by Wallace Shaunfield and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research and writing of the book, HUMANS, has been a time of discovery and revelation. The intention was to complete the fascinating story touched on in the author's first two books of how early Homo sapiens became modern humans. Humans today are anatomically the same as the early Homo sapiens who first appeared on Earth about 200,000 years ago; however, there is a difference. The evidence shows they were instinctively-driven creatures much like their Homo ancestors. The hypothesis was that the key difference was modern humans have the unique attribute of consciousness. This study confirmed that and discovered how and when the transition to modern humans was made. But, much more was uncovered, including the story of how Homo sapiens acquired the broad set of key attributes that makes humans unique, compared to all other living creatures. In addition to consciousness, other attributes were discovered, including how and when the Moral Code, our conscience, our sense of a god, plus many other attributes came into being. The study was scientific in nature using secular evidence, solid logic and reason to tell the story; however, it was clearly shown that the appearance of Homo sapiens on Earth was a supernatural event, which I deduced was an act of God, just as described in the Bible. Topics, like the origination of the moral code, have been debated by scholars throughout the ages with no conclusion. Now, with secular facts, solid logic, and reason, it is also shown that the acquisition of the moral code was a supernatural act of God. The realization of a novel logic principal, I call Non-Evolving Attributes (NEA), allowed this to be determined with a high degree of confidence. Simply stated, the NEA principal says that if you have a group of descendants from a common ancestor, randomly evolved through many different branches, isolated in time and/or distance, and that all descendants have an identical attribute, then that attribute could not have randomly evolved; because if it did, then it would have had to evolve in the same way in each branch, and that is essentially impossible. If that attribute did not evolve, then the original ancestor must have that same attribute. This is profound and very powerful. If you discover a group of identical attributes in a group of people isolated from each other, but with a common ancestor, then you know right away the ancestor had that same attribute. This same principal also showed the Origin-of-Life was a supernatural act of God. No evolution was involved. This important question has long been pondered with no answer until now. This study is a breakthrough in understanding how we humans came into being. This is an important subject and one that has been debated by scholars for ages and now we have an answer. These are profound answers to long held questions, and which could cause a great deal of controversy

Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins

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ISBN 13 : 9781107731790
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins by : Robin Dennell

Download or read book Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins written by Robin Dennell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on the role of Southern Asia and Australia in our understanding of modern human origins and the expansion of Homo sapiens between East Africa and Australia before 30,000 years ago. With contributions from leading experts that take into account the latest archaeological evidence from India and Southeast Asia, this volume critically reviews current models of the timing and character of the spread of modern humans out of Africa. It also demonstrates that the evidence from Australasia should receive much wider and more serious consideration in its own right if we want to understand how our species achieved its global distribution. Critically examining the Out of Africa model, this book emphasizes the context and variability of the global evidence in the search for human origins."

Neanderthal Man

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Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465020836
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Neanderthal Man by : Svante PŠŠbo

Download or read book Neanderthal Man written by Svante PŠŠbo and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential geneticist traces his investigation into the genes of humanity's closest evolutionary relatives, explaining what his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has revealed about their extinction and the origins of modern humans.

Walking the Earth

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Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761334580
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking the Earth by : Tricia Andryszewski

Download or read book Walking the Earth written by Tricia Andryszewski and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the factors influencing human migration from the earliest people in Africa in search of homelands up to the modern era of forced migration due to war and poverty.

The Search for Eve

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Search for Eve by : Michael Harold Brown

Download or read book The Search for Eve written by Michael Harold Brown and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have scientists found the mother of us all?"--Jacket subtitle.

Lucy

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671724991
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis Lucy by : Donald Johanson

Download or read book Lucy written by Donald Johanson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How our oldest human ancestor was discovered--and who she was"--Cover.

Missing Links

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140139730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)

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Book Synopsis Missing Links by : John Reader

Download or read book Missing Links written by John Reader and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Human Origins

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Book Synopsis In Search of Human Origins by : Paul Tisdall

Download or read book In Search of Human Origins written by Paul Tisdall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: