Masters of the planet : seeking the origins of human singularity

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Masters of the planet : seeking the origins of human singularity

Title remainder

seeking the origins of human singularity

Statement of responsibility

Ian Tattersall

Creator

• Tattersall, Ian

Subject

• Evolutionary psychology
• Human beings -- Origin
• Human evolution
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology

Language

eng

Summary

"When homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans--homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo habilis who used tools; and of course the Neanderthals, who were brawny and strong. But shortly after their arrival, something happened that vaulted the species forward and made them the indisputable masters of the planet. This book is devoted to revealing just what that difference is. It explores how the physical traits and cognitive ability of homo sapiens distanced them from the rest of nature. Even more importantly, Masters of the Planet looks at how our early ancestors acquired these superior abilities; it shows that their strange and unprecedented mental facility is not, as most of us were taught, simply a basic competence that was refined over unimaginable eons by natural selection. Instead, it is an emergent capacity that was acquired quite recently and changed the world definitively"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

599.93/8

Index

index present

LC call number

GN281

LC item number

.T364 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography