The book of humans : the story of how we became us /

The book of humans : the story of how we became us /

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Author / Creator:	Rutherford, Adam, author.
Imprint:	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. ©2018
Description:	258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Human evolution -- Popular works. Human evolution.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11715327

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ISBN:	9780297609407 0297609408 9780297609414 0297609416
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Summary:	"Around 45,000 years ago, something happened. We dragged ourselves away from our origins by creating culture, with tools and art and abstract thought and our newly minted minds. The cognitive revolution gave us a sense that we are special, and specially created, distanced from nature. Writers, scientists, philosophers and religions have marvelled at our brilliance for millennia. Yet we are apes, wedded to the rest of creation by genes, anatomy, and physiology, all rooted in a shared evolution. All species are unique, but are we more unique than other animals? This question is at the root of who we are. Things we once lorded as uniquely human are not. We are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, solves puzzles, has fashions, plans for the future, regrets past decisions, goes to war, grieves for lost lives, farms, uses manipulative mind control, and has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. We are the only ones who do all of these things. The Book of Humans is a guidebook to this paradox: what sets us apart from nature, but places us within it. Darwin began the process of inching us back into the natural world but in this dazzling new book, Adam Rutherford will look at how we occupy an exceptional place within the animal kingdom, demystify the complex behaviours we once thought just belonged to us and, in turn, enrich our understanding of what it means to be human." --Publisher description.

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