štítek: člověk
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—there is no “why.” But we...
Smil, Vaclav: Growth
Recently it has been possible to claim that 90% or more of all the
extant information in the world has been generated over the preceding...
Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus
In 1974 the first World Food Conference was convened in Rome, and delegates
were treated to apocalyptic scenarios. They were told that there was no...
Rosling, Hans: Faktomluva
Každá skupina lidí na světě, která dělala tento test, se domnívá, že
svět je mnohem hrozivější, násilnější a beznadějnější – zkrátka
dramatičtější – než ve skutečnosti je.
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Seddon, Christopher: Humans
At the present time, we are living in
a warm interglacial period: MIS 1. This was preceded by the glacial MIS 2,
which lasted from 24,000...
Tattersall, Ian: Masters of the Planet
Because of the peculiar construction
resulting from their complex history, our brains are far from directly
comparable to a feat of human engineering. Indeed, they are...
Clive Finlayson: The Humans Who Went Extinct
We know now
that Neanderthals were pale skinned, had a range of hair colours comparable to
Caucasians, and had a gene that we share and which...
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s...
Chris Stringer: Lone Survivors
The origin of modern Homo sapiens must have been a relatively recent and restricted one in Africa, based on marked similarities between recent humans...
Robin Dunbar: Příběh rodu Homo
„Závěrem tedy můžeme říci, že bipedie, velký mozek a nástroje (to, co jsme tak dlouho považovali za znaky definující lidství), pravděpodobně pocházejí ze zcela...
Richard Leakey: Původ lidstva
Co stvořilo člověka? Možná jen nepatrná chybička při vrásnění.
Původní populace opů žila ve vlhkých pralesích v pásu od západu na východ Afriky. Chůze po...