Our Human Story
- 160bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million years, through to our own species, Homo sapiens.
Chris Stringer Volgorde van de boeken
31 december 1947
Christopher Brian Stringer is een vooraanstaand onderzoeker op het gebied van menselijke oorsprong, die momenteel studies leidt aan het Natural History Museum in Londen. Zijn werk duikt in de complexe geschiedenis van onze soort en biedt diepgaande inzichten in de evolutionaire reis die de mensheid heeft gevormd. Als Fellow van de Royal Society worden zijn bijdragen erkend vanwege hun aanzienlijke impact op het begrip van ons verleden. Stringers onderzoek biedt een cruciaal perspectief voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in het diepe verhaal van de menselijke ontwikkeling.
- 2018
- 2014
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story
- 192bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how humans have periodically lived there ever since.
- 2012
The Origin of Our Species
- 333bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth.
- 2011
The Complete World of Human Evolution
- 240bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. This title explores various aspects of the study of ape and human evolution.
- 2007
Homo Britannicus
- 242bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice.