Humans in the Making: In the Beginning was Technique

by Michel Dubois

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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.
  • ISBN10 1786305844
  • ISBN13 9781786305848
  • Publish Date 15 December 2020 (first published 30 October 2020)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English