PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe not Africa where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineagesuch as dexterous hands and larger brains In this compelling and accessible book David Begun one of the worlds leading paleoanthropologists transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape speciesDrawing on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions across Europe and Asia Begun provides a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans He tells the story of how one of the earliest members of our evolutionary groupa new kind of primate called Proconsulevolved from lemurlike monkeys in the primeval forests of Africa Begun vividly describes how over the next 10 million years these hominoids expanded into Europe and Asia and evolved climbing and hanging adaptations longer maturation times and larger brains setting the stage for the emergence of humans As the climate deteriorated in Europe around 10 million years ago these apes either died out or migrated south reinvading the African continent and giving rise to the lineages of the gorilla chimpanzee and ultimately the humanPresenting startling new insights about our fossil ape ancestors The Real Planet of the Apes is a book that fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins. Primates. Why study primates?. Social behavior offers clues to human behavior.. Many ‘human’ behavioral traits are seen in primates.. Examples?. Behavioral analysis combined with morphological comparisons allow us to determine probable behavior of human ancestors.. A Philo-politico-educational perspective. by David . Balosa. David . Balosa. :. Adjunct Professor of French, Portuguese, . Spanish, & Swahili at Delaware State . University. Department of English and Foreign Languages. Imagine This: . Ms. Wilhite has a brace on her wrist, and students ask, “What happened?”. Ms. Wilhite starts telling you this whole story:. “Well I woke up Monday, and it was raining. I took my dogs on a walk, then came home and ate a bowl of cereal and had some tea. After that I got ready and went to work. It was a pretty good day, my students were well behaved. After school, I hung out for a while and chatted with Ms. Carrillo. It was around 3 pm so I decided to go home. When I got home, I had dinner and went to the gym. While I was at the gym, I was putting some 45 lb. plates on a squat rack. I felt something sharp in my wrist, and looked at it and noticed I had dislocated it from picking up the heavy weight wrong.” . The Real Christmas Story. The traditions of Christmas. 1) The celebration of Christmas. 2) The origin of the word ‘Christmas’. 3) The date/year/season of Christ’s birth. The Real Christmas Story. -Darwin (1871) . The Descent of Man. Mt-DNA Primate Tree. Our Living Sisters. Pan. Gorilla. http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html. Living Asian Apes. Gibbon (. Hyalobates. ). Orangutan (. Over 6 million years . our ape-like ancestors evolved into upright walking, tool using and cultural modern humans, spreading out across the globe. There have been many different hominid species in the past, but only one – . Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers. Dramatic, vivid, and firmly grounded in meticulous research, this book will change the way you see the world. As the San Francisco Chronicle said, it dares to dig for the roots of a contentious and complicated subject that makes up much of our daily news. Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recentlyhas achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi\'s acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research\'s broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi\'sinfancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research the methods by which we represent andevaluate the abilities of both primates and humans and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important readingfor all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology. \'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world\'s experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils\' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs \'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it\' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter\'s ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham.In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. This is the story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. \'Exciting\' David Abulafia, author of The Boundless Sea \'Remarkable\' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred \'Thrilling\' David Reich, author of Who We Are and How We Got Here \'Brilliant\' Chris Gosden, author of The History of Magic\'Gripping and fun\' Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion\'Essential\' Barry Cunliffe, author of The Scythians\'Profoundly entertaining\' Brian Fagan, author of World Prehistory The story of Neanderthal man. Was he our direct ancestor, or was he perhaps a more alien figure, genetically very different? This title brings us into the Neanderthal\'s world, his technology, his way of life, his origins and his relationship with us. While those who study human origns now agree that the evolution of the modern human form extends back much further in time than originally thought, they disagree sharply as to how to interpret the substantive data. The purpose of this volume is to examine those conceptual differences and to explore the reasons why a consensus might never be possible. Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution\'s Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with new approaches to uncovering dietary clues from fossil teeth to present a remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth--their shape, chemistry, and wear--reveal how we came to be.Ungar describes how a tooth\'s foodprints--distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear--provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence--and the scars on our teeth--Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans.Traveling the four corners of the globe and combining scientific breakthroughs with vivid narrative, Evolution\'s Bite presents a unique dental perspective on our astonishing human development. “Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.”—Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile—originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead—and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour—ten times faster than a rifle bullet—Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity – the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity’s greatest adventures – to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.  Susan Thomas . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. Hands and feet. Fingers and toes. Shoulder and hip. Presence of clavicle. Improved vision. Arms that can rotate around shoulder joints.