num_pages: 159
description: Why arent we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how wise Homo sapiens really are.Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65000 yearsa time when we once thought the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid groupthe Denisovansand confirmed that crossbreeding with them (and Neanderthals) made Homo sapiens who we are today.A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist Franois Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools our large brains language empathy or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on todayfrom gossip as modern grooming to our gendered division of laborand what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
language: English
title: A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
publisher: The Experiment