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Adam Rutherford

The Book of Humans

The Story of How We Became Us

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Around 45,000 years ago, something happened. We dragged ourselves away from our origins by creating culture, with tools and art and abstract thought and our newly minted minds. The cognitive revolution gave us a sense that we are special, and specially created, distanced from nature. Writers, scientists, philosophers and religions have marvelled at our brilliance for millennia. Yet we are apes, wedded to the rest of creation by genes, anatomy, and physiology, all rooted in a shared evolution. All species are unique, but are we more unique than other animals? This question is at the root of who we are. Things we once lorded as uniquely human a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-297-60941-4
  • EAN: 9780297609414
  • Produktnummer: 20265179
  • Verlag: Orion
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 364 g
  • Gewicht: 364

Über den Autor


Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme INSIDE SCIENCE and THE CURIOUS CASES OF RUTHERFORD & FRY with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author CREATION, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED, THE BOOK OF HUMANS and the Sunday Times bestselling HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST.

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