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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...