A Pocket History of Human Evolution, Francois Savatier
A Pocket History of Human Evolution, Francois Savatier
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
How We Became Sapiens

Author: Francois Savatier, Silvana Condemi

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Unabridged: 3 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2019

Synopsis

Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are.

Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the Denisovans—and confirmed that crossbreeding with them (and Neanderthals) made Homo sapiens who we are today.

A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today—from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor—and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.

About Francois Savatier

Francois Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is coauthor, with Silvana Condemi, of A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bruce on January 11, 2022

A Pocket History of Human Evolution, How We Became Sapiens, by Silvana Condemi and François Savatier (audio book 3.3 hours). This book is full of so-called “science” so I am going to summarize it in a way that the common person (you) can understand. Long, long, long, long ago human-like animals were......more

Goodreads review by Mirko on March 13, 2023

Davvero un bel libro che ti racconta agilmente la storia della nostra specie dalla conquista del bipedismo obbligato alle forze che hanno spinto alla nascita degli Stati e alla crescita demografica che possiamo osservare oggigiorno. La conclusione è un bellissimo riassunto e manifesto della nostra s......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on April 24, 2021

Recunosc: uneori mă amuză teribil unele studii. Mi-i imaginez pe acei cercetători: ,,Fir-ar, vine șefu'! Bă, dă o foaie încoa', să ne apucăm să calculăm cât timp se scarpină maimuțele, ca să nu creadă că stăm degeaba!". ,,Pentru a funcționa, un grup de primate trebuie într-adevăr să depună eforturi c......more

Goodreads review by barbs on October 13, 2024

2024: lalalla I don't even remember reading this BUT sounds interesting. bet it's in one of those spheres that they show in inside out, like in some random isle in me lil brain, hehe. cool. “Thus, in our opinion, it isn’t biological developments that created the singular evolutionary history of Sapi......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on October 19, 2019

This is a well illustrated little scientific book telling you everything you want to know about human evolution and then some. There's lots of modern research included and charts and illustrations to help with the subject matter. I was hoping this would be helpful for my older kids, but it's definit......more

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