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Masters Of The Planet (2012)

by Ian Tattersall(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

023010875X (ISBN13: 9780230108752)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

review 1: An excellent exposition of our biological uniqueness as humans, highlighting our newly acquired use of symbolic thought and behavior as what predominantly has set us apart from other hominids in prehistory. This acquisition happened, as Tattersall argues, abruptly and recently (his estimations are from 50,000 to 100,000 years ago; a blink of an eye in evolutionary time). Of particular interest is his assessment that culturally and cognitively, humans can advance much further evolutionarily, but with regards to lifestyle, science, and technology in relation to human biology and its environment, humans ought to ease on its advancement and seek equilibrium with the past.
review 2: Wow, we really don't know much about our ancestors at all, or even who is. The habli... mores-erectus-sapien development I learnt in high school is out the window, and the picture is even more murky and interesting. My personal take is that we have evolved because we WILL a change due to a change. The idea of exaptation and eusociality are explained somewhat and the importance of critical junctures and rapid shifts in physiology. less

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