| Description |
153 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 19 cm |
| Note |
Revised translation of: Dernières nouvelles de sapiens. [La Plaine-Saint-Denis] : Flammarion, 2018. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142) and index. |
| Contents |
A biped descends from an ape -- Culture, the evolutionary accelerator -- My big head (almost) killed me -- What obligate bipedalism has made us -- Hunting arouses all of the senses -- The first conquest of the planet -- And Homo sapiens emerged... -- The spread of Homo sapiens over the entire planet -- The emergence of the tribe -- War and the state. |
| Summary |
"A concise, illustrated update on our earliest ancestors (Homo erectus, ergaster, the Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other) and what accelerated Homo sapiens' evolution and left us the sole surviving species among many other ancient bipedal "humans""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Human evolution -- History.
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Human beings -- History.
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Human beings. (OCoLC)fst00962832
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Human evolution. (OCoLC)fst00963030
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Savatier, François, 1961- author.
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| Added Title |
Dernières nouvelles de sapiens. English
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| Translation Of: |
Revised translation of (expression): Condemi, Silvana. Dernières nouvelles de sapiens. La Plaine-Saint-Denis : Flammarion, 2018 9782081427129 (OCoLC)1061274556 |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Condemi, Silvana, A pocket history of human evolution New York : The Experiment, 2019. 9781615196050 (DLC) 2019030096 |
| ISBN |
9781615196043 (trade paperback) |
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1615196048 (trade paperback) |
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9781615196050 (ebook) |
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