Self-made Man and His Undoing - Couverture souple

Kingdon, Jonathan

 
9780671712600: Self-made Man and His Undoing
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0671712608 ISBN 13 : 9780671712600
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

We know that prehistoric humans made fire and shaped tools, but in this book Jonathan Kingdon argues that our ancestors shaped us - the human face, our racial differences and our problematic relationship with nature are all self-made. If all people belong to a single closely related family, how did we acquire our differences and why? This book supplies a radically new explanation. The author suggests that the price our tropical ancestors paid for their expansion out of an African Eden was an irreversible dependence on their own technology. It was in the process of developing man-made economies and developing to man-made habitats that humans diversified. The story of their travels and their travails is a magnificent adventure.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0671712608
ISBN 13 
9780671712600
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0671711407 ISBN 13 :  9780671711405
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1993
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