How To Think Like a Neandertal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How To Think Like a Neandertal write by Thomas Wynn. This book was released on 2012-01-26. How To Think Like a Neandertal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the authors provide a fascinating narrative of the mental life of Neandertals, to the extent that it can be reconstructed from fossil and archaeological remains.
The Smart Neanderthal
The Smart Neanderthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Smart Neanderthal write by Clive Finlayson. This book was released on 2019-02-14. The Smart Neanderthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Or so we thought. As Clive Finlayson explains, the latest advances in genetics prove that there was significant interbreeding between Modern Humans and the Neanderthals. All non-Africans today carry some Neanderthal genes. We have also discovered aspects of Neanderthal behaviour that indicate that they were not cognitively inferior to modern humans, as we once thought, and in fact had their own rituals and art. Finlayson, who is at the forefront of this research, recounts the discoveries of his team, providing evidence that Neanderthals caught birds of prey, and used their feathers for symbolic purposes. There is also evidence that Neanderthals practised other forms of art, as the recently discovered engravings in Gorham's Cave Gibraltar indicate. Linking all the recent evidence, The Smart Neanderthal casts a new light on the Neanderthals and the 'Cognitive Revolution'. Finlayson argues that there was no revolution and, instead, modern behaviour arose gradually and independently among different populations of Modern Humans and Neanderthals. Some practices were even adopted by Modern Humans from the Neanderthals. Finlayson overturns classic narratives of human origins, and raises important questions about who we really are.
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series)
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) write by Dimitra Papagianni. This book was released on 2013-10-07. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-Magnon In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and spoke. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of the Neanderthals’ place in our own past. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe very much in parallel to the Homo sapiens line evolving in Africa, and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. Here, Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse look at the Neanderthals through the full dramatic arc of their existence—from their evolution in Europe to their expansion to Siberia, their subsequent extinction, and ultimately their revival in popular novels, cartoons, cult movies, and TV commercials.
Neanderthal Man
Neanderthal Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neanderthal Man write by Svante Pbo. This book was released on 2014-02-11. Neanderthal Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An influential geneticist traces his investigation into the genes of humanity's closest evolutionary relatives, explaining what his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has revealed about their extinction and the origins of modern humans.
Neanderthal
Neanderthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neanderthal write by John Darnton. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Neanderthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of modern humanity.
