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

Author: André Langaney
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: People often think there is no need to say more about our origins. They assume we already know everything about our earliest ancestors and look down upon them with a certain arrogance as some barbaric, less civilized outsiders. However, the facts revealed by science are enough to astonish us. Our nature—our appearance, our genetic traits, our intelligence, and even our culture, which is our behavior, our way of life, and our imagination—was determined by our earliest ancestors thousands of years ago. Since then, our identity has changed little. In a sense, we are still digging into the prehistoric era of humanity.