Our Human Story
- 160 stránok
- 6 hodin čítania
Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million years, through to our own species, Homo sapiens.
Chris Stringer Poradie kníh
31. december 1947
Christopher Brian Stringer je významný výskumník v oblasti ľudských počiatkov, ktorý v súčasnosti vedie štúdie v Prírodovednom múzeu v Londýne. Jeho práca sa zaoberá zložitou históriou nášho druhu a ponúka hlboký pohľad na evolučnú cestu, ktorá formovala ľudstvo. Ako člen Kráľovskej spoločnosti sú jeho príspevky uznávané pre ich významný vplyv na pochopenie našej minulosti. Stringerov výskum poskytuje zásadný pohľad pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o hlboký príbeh vývoja človeka.
- 2018
- 2014
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story
- 192 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how humans have periodically lived there ever since.
- 2012
The Origin of Our Species
- 333 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth.
- 2011
The Complete World of Human Evolution
- 240 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. This title explores various aspects of the study of ape and human evolution.
- 2007
Homo Britannicus
- 242 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice.