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1) Humanimal: how Homo sapiens became nature's most paradoxical creature : a new evolutionary history
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey; in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. We aren't the only species that communicates, makes tools, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. But...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely...
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated genetic anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story-and fascinating mystery-of how humans migrated to the Americas"--
20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep...
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