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.
ISBN: | 9781786305848 |
Publication date: | 15th December 2020 |
Author: | Michel J. F. Dubois |
Publisher: | ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Genres: |
Biology, life sciences |