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The Incredible Human Journey (Paperback)
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The Incredible Human Journey (Paperback)
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Loot Price R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert
to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in
order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they
tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some
of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face:
mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant
beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most
serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors
set out from Africa there were already two other species of human
on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. Both
(contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making
tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So,
Alice asks, why did only Homo sapiens survive? Part detective
story, part travelogue, and drawing on the latest genetic and
archaeological discoveries, Alice examines how our ancestors
evolved physically in response to these challenges, finding out how
our colour, shape, size, diet, disease resistance and even athletic
ability have been shaped by the range of environments that our
ancestors had to survive. She also relates how astonishingly
closely related we all are. As a lecturer in Anatomy at Bristol
University, Alice Roberts is eminently qualified to write this
book. As a talented artist, she is perfectly qualified to
illustrate it, and dotted throughout this lively book are many of
the sketches and photographs from her travels.
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