Homo Sapiens. A Brief History of Human Evolution
15 hrs. 10 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Norbert Edward
Author
Norbert Edward
Narrator
Alexander Alekhin
Narrator
Alexander Alekhin
Description
An exciting adventure novel about our evolution!
Everyone knows that humans descended from monkeys, but for most people, that’s where their knowledge of human evolution ends. The “magic transformation” (and it really is magic) is imagined something like this: a monkey climbed down from a tree onto the ground, stood up on its hind legs, took a stick in its hands, and… became a human. But how many questions and controversial points are there along the way—questions that anthropologists still can’t resolve!
— Why did monkeys need to come down from the trees?
— At what moment did the fateful transformation from monkey to human happen?
— Why didn’t all monkeys turn into humans?
— Where is the cradle of humankind?
— How is sexual selection different from natural selection?
— Why did Eve, the progenitor of humankind, live sixty thousand years earlier than Adam?
— What advantages do sweaty palms provide?
— Who are the Neanderthals, and how are they different from Denisovans?
— Who are we— the pinnacle of evolution or an intermediate link?
In this audiobook, the complete history of human evolution is covered: the formation of the genus Homo and the changes that accompanied our ancestors for thousands of years. Thanks to the effortless presentation of serious scientific material combined with the encyclopedic breadth of the author’s perspective, the audiobook listens like an exciting adventure novel. A novel about our evolution—yours and mine!
Everyone knows that humans descended from monkeys, but for most people, that’s where their knowledge of human evolution ends. The “magic transformation” (and it really is magic) is imagined something like this: a monkey climbed down from a tree onto the ground, stood up on its hind legs, took a stick in its hands, and… became a human. But how many questions and controversial points are there along the way—questions that anthropologists still can’t resolve!
— Why did monkeys need to come down from the trees?
— At what moment did the fateful transformation from monkey to human happen?
— Why didn’t all monkeys turn into humans?
— Where is the cradle of humankind?
— How is sexual selection different from natural selection?
— Why did Eve, the progenitor of humankind, live sixty thousand years earlier than Adam?
— What advantages do sweaty palms provide?
— Who are the Neanderthals, and how are they different from Denisovans?
— Who are we— the pinnacle of evolution or an intermediate link?
In this audiobook, the complete history of human evolution is covered: the formation of the genus Homo and the changes that accompanied our ancestors for thousands of years. Thanks to the effortless presentation of serious scientific material combined with the encyclopedic breadth of the author’s perspective, the audiobook listens like an exciting adventure novel. A novel about our evolution—yours and mine!
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