The Most Moving History of Humanity: How Earth Became a Human Garden

Author: (French) Jean-Jacques Rangne
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: When it comes to our origins, people often feel there's no need to say much more. They assume they already know everything about our earliest ancestors and dismiss them with a certain arrogance as crude, uncivilized outsiders. However, the facts revealed by science today are enough to leave us astonished. Our nature, appearance, genetic traits, intelligence, and even our own culture—that is, our behavior, lifestyle, and imaginative world—were determined by our earliest ancestors thousands of years ago. Since then, our identity has changed little. In a way, we are still living in the prehistoric era of humanity. This book avoids any technical jargon and is suitable for all teenagers and adults, regardless of their level of knowledge. It adopts a Q&A format, with the author posing various questions to several scientists, especially those as innocent as those a child might ask. Because an increasing number of readers not only want to know what science knows but also want to understand how science knows what it knows.