A unique approach: The first book to bring together the science and the cultural impact of fossils.
Fossils hold a permanent place in the popular imagination.
An immensely readable account from ... 続きを読む
Each chapter describes a major step in the history of life - the breakthroughs that made new forms of life possible
Explores the origins of sex, the first multicellular creatures, explains how ha ... 続きを読む
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorte ... 続きを読む
Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our ... 続きを読む
