Humans in the Making
In the Beginning was Technique
Format:Hardback
Publisher:ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published:15th Dec '20
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The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.
ISBN: 9781786305848
Dimensions: 10mm x 10mm x 10mm
Weight: 454g
272 pages