Walking With Cavemen: Eye-To-Eye With Your Ancestors
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Four million years of human evolution come startlingly to life in Walking With Cavemen: Eye-to-Eye With Your Ancestors, the landmark companion volume to the acclaimed BBC television series that brought our prehistoric ancestors back from the distant past. The book chronicles the epic journey of human evolution, from the earliest upright-walking hominids of the African savannah to the emergence of anatomically modern Homo sapiens, presenting the science of paleoanthropology with vivid, accessible authority. Drawing on cutting-edge fossil evidence and the latest findings in evolutionary biology and primatology, Lynch and Barrett reconstruct the lives, behaviours, and social worlds of species such as Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo heidelbergensis with remarkable precision and narrative drive. Underpinned by the expertise of behavioural ecologist Louise Barrett, the text argues that understanding our ancestors is inseparable from understanding ourselves — our drives, our social bonds, our capacity for language and tool use. With a foreword by renowned scientist and broadcaster Robert Winston, the book carries the weight of serious scientific credibility while remaining compulsively readable for a general audience. It is a vivid, thought-provoking portrait of what it truly means to be human — and a powerful reminder of just how extraordinary the road to becoming us really was.
Author: John Lynch And Louise Barrett
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Four million years of human evolution come startlingly to life in Walking With Cavemen: Eye-to-Eye With Your Ancestors, the landmark companion volume to the acclaimed BBC television series that brought our prehistoric ancestors back from the distant past. The book chronicles the epic journey of human evolution, from the earliest upright-walking hominids of the African savannah to the emergence of anatomically modern Homo sapiens, presenting the science of paleoanthropology with vivid, accessible authority. Drawing on cutting-edge fossil evidence and the latest findings in evolutionary biology and primatology, Lynch and Barrett reconstruct the lives, behaviours, and social worlds of species such as Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo heidelbergensis with remarkable precision and narrative drive. Underpinned by the expertise of behavioural ecologist Louise Barrett, the text argues that understanding our ancestors is inseparable from understanding ourselves — our drives, our social bonds, our capacity for language and tool use. With a foreword by renowned scientist and broadcaster Robert Winston, the book carries the weight of serious scientific credibility while remaining compulsively readable for a general audience. It is a vivid, thought-provoking portrait of what it truly means to be human — and a powerful reminder of just how extraordinary the road to becoming us really was.