Humans in the making : in the beginning was technique /
The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, United Kingdom : Hoboken, NJ :
ISTE, Ltd. ; Wiley,
2020.
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| Series: | Science, society and new technologies series. Social interdisciplinarity set ;
v. 4. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119788492 1119788498 |