Why read Understanding Human Evolution?

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Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Understanding Human Evolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Telmo Pievani

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I like this book so much because it tells us that we are the last twig in a bush of human species.

Until a few tens of millennia ago, five different human species lived on our planet, that’s amazing! Only recently, thanks to the surge of symbolic intelligence, have we become a marvel of creativity and invasiveness, an ambivalent species.

From Telmo's list on the fact that evolution didn't predict us.