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Author : Ian Tattersall,Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028489354
An assessment of human evolution that theorizes that many more species of humans than previously thought have existed during the six million year history of the hominid family.
Author : Esteban E. Sarmiento,Kenneth Mowbray,Gary J. Sawyer,Richard Milner,Viktor Deak,Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300100477
Creates three-dimensional scientific reconstructions for twenty-two species of extinct humans, providing information for each one on its emergence, chronology, geographic range, classification, physiology, environment, habitat, cultural achievements, coex
Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199239191
Originally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.
Author : Ian Tattersall,Jeffrey Schwartz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813339189
Scientists have long envisioned the human “family tree” as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous Neanderthals, culminating in us, Homo sapiens. But this model is unlike the evolutionary patterns known for all other vertebrates—patterns that typically reveal multiple branchings and extinctions. In Extinct Humans, Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz present convincing evidence that many distinct species of humans have existed during the history of the hominid family, often simultaneously. Furthermore, these species may have contributed to one another's extinction. Who were these different human species? Which are direct ancestors to us? And, the most profound question of all, why is there only a single human species alive on Earth now?
Author : Johnny Marciano
Publisher : Black Sheep
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617759279
Included in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2021 Children's Sneak Previews Ten million years from now, dinosaurs are long forgotten--but the exhibits on humans are pretty cool. Let's learn about the most mystifying species to ever walk the Earth!
Author : Pat Shipman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674736764
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? “Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she’s right. For now, read this book for an engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding of our own origins.” —Toby Lester, Wall Street Journal “Are humans the ultimate invasive species? So contends anthropologist Pat Shipman—and Neanderthals, she opines, were among our first victims. The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is laid out cleanly, along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was the domestication of wolves.” —Daniel Cressey, Nature
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805099799
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Author : Saify Arsiwala
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1717942741
Amongst all species created on this Earth, Humans are perhaps the only species who have survived for long. In the course of Evolution, many species got extinct. This book discusses the progress that Humans have made and how they remain Imperishable, and would never get extinct. What makes them Different from other species of living creatures? Biologically Humans have not change since the last 200,000 years. It is the mind and mental development which has evolved with discoveries and inventions for the betterment of Humans. We are moving towards the Era of Humanism from the Era of Gods. What and how these changes have taken place? This book discusses in details various aspect of our evolution which helps us to survive and ultimately make us Imperishable. Since we have not changed biologically, our evolution till today involves Human Behavior and Human sexuality. Both these aspects have been discussed in details and how these evolved to protect us from extinction. How our Mind, thought and feelings evolved with the changing time and how it helps us to protect. Furthermore, Genetics and transference of information, and Cellular Biology which helps us to understand the evolutionary process and how humans used these information to understand Humanism. A New Era of Humanism has started. This will cause all Humans on this earth to come together. The process has already began, with Internet and Social Media. Our Cooperativeness will lead us to Humanism, worshiping Humans (Corporate). Today our pursuit is for Happiness and Immortality, which we have not achieved yet. This has remained the domain of Religion and God. Humanism may ultimately achieve this also making everything else redundant. This will make us Imperishable.
Author : Pat Shipman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674425408
Humans domesticated dogs soon after Neanderthals began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species, Pat Shipman hypothesizes, made possible unprecedented success in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for human invaders at a time when climate change made both humans and Neanderthals vulnerable.
Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780759553989
"Save the People is engaging, funny, affecting and delightful. You’ll never have more fun learning science." --Stuart Gibbs, bestselling author of the Spy School series "Serious science and great gags, with a bit of hope thrown in.” --Steven Sheinkin, bestselling author of Bomb and Fallout An action-packed look at past, present, and future threats to humanity’s survival—with an ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us. Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it's not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? All the above?! Humans—with our big brains, opposable thumbs, and speedy Wi-Fi—may be capable of avoiding most of these nightmares. (The T. rex would be super jealous of our satellites.) But we're also capable of triggering world-ending events. Learning from past catastrophes may be the best way to avoid future disasters. Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations, Save the People! examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won’t) cause the greatest mass extinction—our own!
Author : Lenore Newman
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781773054063
A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Whether it’s chasing down the luscious butter of local Icelandic cattle or looking at the impacts of modern industrialized agriculture on the range of food varieties we can put in our shopping carts, Newman’s bright, intelligent gaze finds insight and humor at every turn. Bracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of “extinction dinners” designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future. Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a critical contribution to our understanding of food security today. You will never look at what’s on your plate in quite the same way again.
Author : Émile P. Torres
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000904055
This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks." Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extinction and how the debate has changed over time. It establishes a new theoretical foundation for thinking about the ethics of our extinction, arguing that extinction would be very bad under most circumstances, although the outcome might be, on balance, good. Throughout the book, graphs, tables, and images further illustrate how human choices and attitudes about extinction have evolved in Western history. In its thorough examination of humanity’s past, this book also provides a starting point for understanding our future. Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians.
Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443400084
Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He then continues with an astounding depiction of how Earth will fare once we’re no longer around. The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanity’s future extinction to millions of years into the future. Drawing on interviews with experts and on real examples of places in the world that have already been abandoned by humans—Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest—Weisman shows both the shocking impact we’ve had on our planet and how impermanent our footprint actually is.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781588346360
The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution Some 73,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began to rumble. A deep vibration shook the entire island. Jets of steam and ash emanated from the summit, followed by an explosion louder than any sound heard by Homo sapiens since our species evolved on Earth. The eruption of the Toba supervolcano released the energy of a million tons of explosives; seven hundred cubic miles of magma spewed outward in an explosion forty times larger than the largest hydrogen bomb and more than a thousand times as powerful as the Krakatau eruption in 1883. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop by five to nine degrees. It took a full decade for Earth to recover to its pre-eruption temperatures. When Humans Nearly Vanished presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide. Human genes today show evidence of a "genetic bottleneck," an effect seen when a population of organisms becomes so small that their genetic diversity is greatly reduced. This group of survivors could be the ancestors of all humans alive today. Donald R. Prothero explores the geological and biological evidence supporting the Toba bottleneck theory; reveals how the explosion itself was discovered; and offers insight into how the world changed afterward and what might happen if such an eruption occurred today. Prothero's riveting account of this calamitous supervolcanic explosion is not to be missed.
Author : Ross Piper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780313349881
Everyone is familiar with the dodo and the wooly mammoth, but how many people have heard of the scimitar cat and the Falkland Island fox? Extinct Animals portrays over 60 remarkable animals that have been lost forever during the relatively recent geological past. Each entry provides a concise discussion of the history of the animal—how and where it lived, and how it became extinct—as well as the scientific discovery and analysis of the creature. In addition, this work examines what led to extinction—from the role of cyclical swings in the Earth's climate to the spread of humans and their activities. Many scientists believe that we are in the middle of a mass extinction right now, caused by the human undermining of the earth's complex systems that support life. Understanding what caused the extinction of animals in the past may help us understand and prevent the extinction of species in the future. Extinct Animals examines the biology and history of some of the most interesting creatures that have ever lived, including: The American Terror Bird, which probably became extinct over 1 million years ago, who were massive predators, some of which were almost 10 feet tall; the Rocky Mountain Locust, last seen in 1902, formed the most immense animal aggregations ever known, with swarms estimated to include over 10 trillion insects; the Giant Ground Sloth, which was as large as an elephant; and the Neandertals, the first Europeans, which co-existed with prehistoric Homo sapiens. Extinct Animals includes illustrations—many created for the work—that help the reader visualize the extinct creature, and each entry concludes with a list of resources for those who wish to do further research.