First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
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First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
14.99 €
We humans are the only mammals that walk on two legs rather than four, and we take it for granted. We look forward to our babies' first steps, but how did our ancestors take their first steps? We try to hold our heads up high, but what was the cost of being upright?
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy Desilva explores just how extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very beginnings of the human species shows how upright walking initiated the development of the attributes that make us human: the ability to create technology, the desire to explore the world around us, the development and use of speech - and may have laid the foundation for such traits of our species as compassion, mutual aid, and altruism.
For biologists, anthropologists, paleoanthropologists, medical and biology students, and anyone interested in evolutionary biology, sports, medicine, and healthy living.
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy Desilva explores just how extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very beginnings of the human species shows how upright walking initiated the development of the attributes that make us human: the ability to create technology, the desire to explore the world around us, the development and use of speech - and may have laid the foundation for such traits of our species as compassion, mutual aid, and altruism.
For biologists, anthropologists, paleoanthropologists, medical and biology students, and anyone interested in evolutionary biology, sports, medicine, and healthy living.
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