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Kindred

Author : Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472937481
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Kindred written by Rebecca Wragg Sykes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.

Buried Alive

Author : Jack Cuozzo
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0890512388
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Buried Alive written by Jack Cuozzo and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Neanderthal skeletons are the remains of post flood very old biblical patriarchs.

Neanderthal Man

Author : Svante Pääbo
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080685
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Neanderthal Man written by Svante Pääbo and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human? Neanderthal Man tells the riveting personal and scientific story of the quest to use ancient DNA to unlock the secrets of human evolution. Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, Neanderthal Man describes the events, intrigues, failures, and triumphs of these scientifically rich years through the lens of the pioneer and inventor of the field of ancient DNA, Svante Pääbo. We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our ancient relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of where language came from as well as why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Pääbo redrew our family tree and permanently changed the way we think about who we are and how we got here. For readers of Richard Dawkins, David Reich, and Hope Jahren, Neanderthal Man is the must-read account of how he did it.

Neanderthal Alive

Author : Jan Simonson
Publisher : Hominid Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neanderthal Alive written by Jan Simonson and published by Hominid Books. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khipa Shulgin is a reindeer herder and wildlife guide living with his brothers on an island in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Khipa has inherited a life-threatening heart ailment and travels to the mainland village of Ossora for medical help. After a physical examination, the doctor orders genetic testing and refers Khipa to a cardiologist in Vladivostok. While waiting for his travel arrangements to be finalized, Khipa discovers a poacher’s cache and gathers a bear paw as evidence. In Vladivostok, Khipa delivers the paw to a geneticist who uses DNA to convict wildlife criminals. Khipa also connects with an undercover cop who chases poachers, and the bear paw becomes key evidence in breaking up a poaching ring. As Khipa undergoes medical treatment, archaeologists working at a dig site on his island uncover stone tools made by Neanderthals, and speculation arises that Khipa and his brothers are living Neanderthals. Khipa asks the geneticist to examine his DNA profile to quash these rumours, hoping to prove he’s a modern human and preserve his traditional lifestyle. Instead, Khipa learns he is 85% Neanderthal. To further complicate matters, the government collects DNA from his brothers, and a global storm of interest is unleashed. As he comes to terms with his genetic lineage and with a life-saving device in his chest, Khipa takes on a legal battle to save his island, and his people, from developers and speculators. In so doing, Khipa uncovers dark secrets from Kamchatka’s past and the sordid world of wildlife trafficking. Above all, he learns to survive as a Neanderthal in the modern world. The narrative transports the reader back in time—to the Neanderthal era. Onar and his clan meet a strange and hostile human, Homo sapiens, but fail to build friendly relations. Kidnappings, thievery, and violence break out, and the Neanderthals struggle to defend their homes and territories. When game becomes scarce and starvation threatens their survival, Onar’s descendants abandon their homeland and disappear into the mist to become one of earth’s “uncontacted peoples”—until the modern world discovers Neanderthals are still alive.

The Last Neanderthal

Author : Claire Cameron
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316314455
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Last Neanderthal written by Claire Cameron and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both. Forty thousand years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing part of herself. In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives. Haunting, suspenseful, and profoundly moving, The Last Neanderthal asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human.

The Humans Who Went Extinct

Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199239193
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Humans Who Went Extinct written by Clive Finlayson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.

Neanderthals and Modern Humans

Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139449710
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Neanderthals and Modern Humans written by Clive Finlayson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.

The Neandertals

Author : Erik Trinkaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712660341
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Neandertals written by Erik Trinkaus and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856 - as Darwin was completing Origin of Species - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in Germany. This work offers an account of the search for man's beginnings and out of a particular man - dead for 40, 000 years - who began a revolution that changed the world.

Neanderthal

Author : John Darnton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497680840
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Neanderthal written by John Darnton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of modern humanity.

The Invaders

Author : Pat Shipman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736761
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Invaders written by Pat Shipman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? “Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she’s right. For now, read this book for an engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding of our own origins.” —Toby Lester, Wall Street Journal “Are humans the ultimate invasive species? So contends anthropologist Pat Shipman—and Neanderthals, she opines, were among our first victims. The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is laid out cleanly, along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was the domestication of wolves.” —Daniel Cressey, Nature

Hominids

Author : Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429914637
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hominids written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception. Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy. During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can't possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge! Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other-or both-but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual. In short, Robert J. Sawyner has done it again. Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Them and Us

Author : Danny Vendramini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908244775
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Them and Us written by Danny Vendramini and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put aside everything you thought you knew about being human - about how we got here and what it all means. Australian theoretical biologist Danny Vendramini has developed a theory of human origins that is stunning in its simplicity, yet breathtaking in its scope and importance. Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans begins with a radical reassessment of Neanderthals. He shows they weren't docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores - top flight predators of the stone age. Neanderthal Predation (NP) theory reveals that Neanderthals were 'apex' predators - who resided at the top of the food chain, and everything else - including humans - was their prey. NP theory is one of those groundbreaking ideas that revolutionizes scientific thinking. It represents a quantum leap in our understanding of human origins.

The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series)

Author : Dimitra Papagianni
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771804
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) written by Dimitra Papagianni and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-Magnon In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and spoke. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of the Neanderthals’ place in our own past. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe very much in parallel to the Homo sapiens line evolving in Africa, and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. Here, Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse look at the Neanderthals through the full dramatic arc of their existence—from their evolution in Europe to their expansion to Siberia, their subsequent extinction, and ultimately their revival in popular novels, cartoons, cult movies, and TV commercials.

A Different Flesh

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009452
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Different Flesh written by Harry Turtledove and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel by the New York Times–bestselling “master of alternate history” explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly). What if mankind’s “missing link,” the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the “sims” were their slaves. This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove’s A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists’ desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists’ daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who’s being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.

Extinct Humans

Author : Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extinct Humans written by Ian Tattersall and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of human evolution that theorizes that many more species of humans than previously thought have existed during the six million year history of the hominid family.

Regenesis

Author : George M Church
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038654
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Regenesis written by George M Church and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life. In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. These technologies-far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction-have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our life span. A breathtaking look at the potential of this world-changing technology, Regenesis is nothing less than a guide to the future of life.

On the Origin of Species Illustrated

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Species Illustrated written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),[3] published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.[4] Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.