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Extinct Humans
Author | : Ian Tattersall,Jeffrey H. Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2000-06-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105028489354 |
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An assessment of human evolution that theorizes that many more species of humans than previously thought have existed during the six million year history of the hominid family.
The Last Human
Author | : Esteban E. Sarmiento,Kenneth Mowbray,Gary J. Sawyer,Richard Milner,Viktor Deak,Ian Tattersall |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300100477 |
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Creates three-dimensional scientific reconstructions for twenty-two species of extinct humans, providing information for each one on its emergence, chronology, geographic range, classification, physiology, environment, habitat, cultural achievements, coex
The Humans Who Went Extinct
Author | : Clive Finlayson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199239191 |
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Originally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.
Extinct Humans
Author | : Ian Tattersall,Jeffrey Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813339189 |
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Scientists have long envisioned the human “family tree” as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous Neanderthals, culminating in us, Homo sapiens. But this model is unlike the evolutionary patterns known for all other vertebrates—patterns that typically reveal multiple branchings and extinctions. In Extinct Humans, Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz present convincing evidence that many distinct species of humans have existed during the history of the hominid family, often simultaneously. Furthermore, these species may have contributed to one another's extinction. Who were these different human species? Which are direct ancestors to us? And, the most profound question of all, why is there only a single human species alive on Earth now?
How Did Humans Go Extinct
Author | : Johnny Marciano |
Publsiher | : Black Sheep |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1617759279 |
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Included in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2021 Children's Sneak Previews Ten million years from now, dinosaurs are long forgotten--but the exhibits on humans are pretty cool. Let's learn about the most mystifying species to ever walk the Earth!
The Invaders
Author | : Pat Shipman |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674736764 |
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A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? “Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she’s right. For now, read this book for an engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding of our own origins.” —Toby Lester, Wall Street Journal “Are humans the ultimate invasive species? So contends anthropologist Pat Shipman—and Neanderthals, she opines, were among our first victims. The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is laid out cleanly, along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was the domestication of wolves.” —Daniel Cressey, Nature
Save the People
Author | : Stacy McAnulty |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780759553989 |
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"Save the People is engaging, funny, affecting and delightful. You’ll never have more fun learning science." --Stuart Gibbs, bestselling author of the Spy School series "Serious science and great gags, with a bit of hope thrown in.” --Steven Sheinkin, bestselling author of Bomb and Fallout An action-packed look at past, present, and future threats to humanity’s survival—with an ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us. Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it's not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? All the above?! Humans—with our big brains, opposable thumbs, and speedy Wi-Fi—may be capable of avoiding most of these nightmares. (The T. rex would be super jealous of our satellites.) But we're also capable of triggering world-ending events. Learning from past catastrophes may be the best way to avoid future disasters. Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations, Save the People! examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won’t) cause the greatest mass extinction—our own!
The Sixth Extinction
Author | : Elizabeth Kolbert |
Publsiher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780805099799 |
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.