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The Incredible Human Journey by Alice Roberts (Paperback, 2010)
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Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents.
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Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors set out from Africa there were already two other species of human on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. Both (contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So, Alice asks, why did only Homo sapiens survive? Part detective story, part travelogue, and drawing on the latest genetic and archaeological discoveries, Alice examines how our ancestors evolved physically in response to these challenges, finding out how our colour, shape, size, diet, disease resistance and even athletic ability have been shaped by the range of environments that our ancestors had to survive. She also relates how astonishingly closely related we all are. As a lecturer in Anatomy at Bristol University, Alice Roberts is eminently qualified to write this book. As a talented artist, she is perfectly qualified to illustrate it, and dotted throughout this lively book are many of the sketches and photographs from her travels.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408802885
eBay Product ID (ePID)92343959
Product Key Features
Publication Year2010
SubjectScience, Biology
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Incredible Human Journey
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlice Roberts
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAlice Roberts
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- 22 Jun, 2022
Yes and no
That books in ok used cond . Subject matter interesting but for an ordinary lay person some of it is pretty hard to understand but it's strangely compelling once you accept your own limitations and get from it a good overall pictureVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Nov, 2019
Convincing and brilliant.
Anyone who is interested in the origin of humanity should read Alice Roberts book. Alice presents the evidence of human occupation of the earth which evidence reveals that humans began in sub - Saharan Africa. Alice follows the ancestral trail by examining the human genetic material and by examining the artefacts that human beings made and the road the earliest humans travelled on lead out of Africa.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Nov, 2022
A must-read!
A great book that everyone should read!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 17 Nov, 2021
Wonderful video. Ver informative.
Fantastic if you are interested in this subject.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Sep, 2021
Good Book
Good Book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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