ISBN:
9781119788492
,
1119788498
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Science, society and new technologies series, social interdisciplinarity set volume 4
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human beings Origin
;
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
;
Human beings Origin
Abstract:
The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1002/9781119788492
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119788492
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