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Before the dawn recovering the lost history of our ancestors

A history of humanity's ancient ancestry draws on ground-breaking scientific findings to offer insight into such debated issues as the evolution of language and race, the domestication of companion animals, and the defeat of the Neanderthals.

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  • "A history of humanity's ancient ancestry draws on ground-breaking scientific findings to offer insight into such debated issues as the evolution of language and race, the domestication of companion animals, and the defeat of the Neanderthals."@en
  • "Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature."
  • "Reveals the answers that researchers have ingeniously developed to so many puzzles: When did language emerge? When and why did we start to wear clothing? How did our ancestors break out of Africa and defeat the more physically powerful Neanderthals who stood in their way? Why did the different races evolve, and why did we come to speak so many different languages? When did we learn to live with animals and where and when did we domesticate man's first animal companions, dogs? How did human nature change during the thirty-five thousand years between the emergence of fully modern humans and the first settlements? Wade takes readers to the forefront of research, revealing how genetic discoveries are helping to weave together the perspectives of archaeology, paleontology, anthropology, linguistics, and many other fields."@en
  • "[In this book, the author] discusses how information gained from the decoded human genome has been used to explain the emergence of human species, e.g., how humans lost most of their body hair and gained the power of speech. The study of the human genome has assisted anthropologists in discovering how Neanderthals became extinct. [He also] discusses the migration and "metamorphosis" of human groups, furnishing a family tree of humans and other great apes based on the decoded part of mitochondrial DNA, and illustrating the continuity between the world of apes 5 million years ago and the human world evolving from it. Initially, human physical features emerged and then human behavior developed in the last ice age. The three principal social institutions of humans--warfare, religion, and trade--evolved 50,000 years ago, and early humans overcame their natural aggressiveness to live in settled communities. This [book on] human evolution ... will be valuable not only to professional biologists, naturalists, and anthropologists, but to all those interested in the fate of the human species. -Choice."
  • "Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature. In wonderfully lively and lucid prose, Wade reveals the answers that researchers have ingeniously developed to so many puzzles. This will be the most talked about science book of the season."
  • "Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature. In wonderfully lively and lucid prose, Wade reveals the answers that researchers have ingeniously developed to so many puzzles. This will be the most talked about science book of the season."@en
  • "Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings-driven by revelations discovered in the human genome-has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors-the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization. Sure to stimulate lively controversy, he makes the case for novel arguments about many hotly debated issues such as the evolution of language and race and the genetic roots of human nature, and reveals that human evolution has continued even to today.In wonderfully lively and lucid prose, Wade reveals the answers that researchers have ingeniously developed to so many puzzles: When did language emerge? When and why did we start to wear clothing? How did our ancestors break out of Africa and defeat the more physically powerful Neanderthals who stood in their way? Why did the different races evolve, and why did we come to speak so many different languages? When did we learn to live with animals and where and when did we domesticate man's first animal companions, dogs? How did human nature change during the thirty-five thousand years between the emergence of fully modern humans and the first settlements? This will be the most talked about science book of the season."@en
  • "New York Times science reporter, Nicholas Wade presents the thought-provoking history of how humans came to be through the exploration of ancestry and the evolution of human nature."@en

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