How Humans Became Intelligent
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Discover the conditions that make genetic change occur in an eyeblink; why our feet look like this; how ‘fertility week’ led to pair-bonding and longer childhoods, and how rope created our work ethic. Find out why our ancestors built burial mounds–it wasn’t to signal extra-terrestrials! Did language play a role in our development? Just what happened 12,000 years ago that caused humans to start farming and building cities?
The field of anthropology has exploded in the past decade. Old theories are being upturned.
With a bravery only an outsider can bring, Lynn Hartwig melds the evidence from recent digs to the facts from the fields of biology, genetics, nutrition, psychology and anthropology to reveal the fortuitous timing which led to becoming not just an intelligent species but one that makes things, collects them, and cares about what happens to their stuff after they die.
Drawing from a lifetime of research in Anthropology and Archaeology plus possessing an engineer’s love of making all the data fit, the author translates the jargon into everyday language to share both how and why intelligence evolved in humans.
The field of anthropology has exploded in the past decade. Old theories are being upturned.
With a bravery only an outsider can bring, Lynn Hartwig melds the evidence from recent digs to the facts from the fields of biology, genetics, nutrition, psychology and anthropology to reveal the fortuitous timing which led to becoming not just an intelligent species but one that makes things, collects them, and cares about what happens to their stuff after they die.
Drawing from a lifetime of research in Anthropology and Archaeology plus possessing an engineer’s love of making all the data fit, the author translates the jargon into everyday language to share both how and why intelligence evolved in humans.