Are we «the chosen species», the necessary outcome of the long course of evolution? Or are we an accident, the result of one of many possible alternatives in the history of life? What came first, a bipedal being or an intelligent being? Since when have human beings been able to speak? Were our ancestors monogamous? How did they live? What did they eat?
This book has been conceived to give answers to these and many other questions about our origins. As in a detective story, the authors look for the pieces of evidence of the «crime» and go on to reconstruct the sequence of facts, explaining the how, when, and why. With the scientific rigor to be expected from first-rate investigators, Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martínez render in The Chosen Species the best and most documented synthesis of the enigma of human beings.
Spanish Kiosk: RBA; Catalan: Columna; World English: Blackwell
Are we «the chosen species», the necessary outcome of the long course of evolution? Or are we an accident, the result of one of many possible alternatives in the history of life? What came first, a bipedal being or an intelligent being? Since when have human beings been able to speak? Were our ancestors monogamous? How did they live? What did they eat?
This book has been conceived to give answers to these and many other questions about our origins. As in a detective story, the authors look for the pieces of evidence of the «crime» and go on to reconstruct the sequence of facts, explaining the how, when, and why. With the scientific rigor to be expected from first-rate investigators, Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martínez render in The Chosen Species the best and most documented synthesis of the enigma of human beings.
Spanish Kiosk: RBA; Catalan: Columna; World English: Blackwell
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Death Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2022
Life Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2020
Life, the Great Story | Destino/Planeta, 2019
Amalur. The Atom in the Mind | Destino/Planeta, 2019
The Neanderthal’s Necklace | Destino, 2019 / Temas de Hoy, 1999
The Human Signature | Debate/Planeta, 2013
The First Journey of Our Life | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2012
A Brief History of Earth | Temas de hoy, 2010
Mr. Darwin's Clock | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2009
My First Prehistory Book. When the World Was Just a Child | Espasa, 2008
The Human Saga | Edaf, 2007
On the Other Side of the Fog | Suma/PRH, 2005
The World of Atapuerca | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2004
The Aborigines. Feeding and Human Evolution | RBA, 2002
The Sphinx Enigma | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2001