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The Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart (Paperback)
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The Cradle of Humanity - How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 190
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Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We
are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo
sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to
nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced
almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are
changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of
the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take
over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence,
not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why
did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of
running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for
childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a
considerable advantage. In this book Mark Maslin brings together
the latest insights from hominin fossils and combines them with
evidence of the changing landscape of the East African Rift Valley
to show how all these factors led to selection pressures that
favoured our ultrasocial brains. Astronomy, geology, climate, and
landscape all had a part to play in making East Africa the cradle
of humanity and allowing us to dominate the planet.
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