Cradle of Humanity - How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Early Human Evolution


• 3: Tectonics and Climate


• 4: Cradle of Humanity


• 5: Global Climate Change


• 6: Celestial Mechanics


• 7: African Climate Pulses


• 8: The Social Brain


• 9: The Future of Humanity


• Further Reading


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Maslin is Professor of Palaeoclimatology at University College London. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder, a Royal Society Industry Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Maslin has published over 160 papers in journals such as Science and Nature on past and future climate change and its effects on the carbon cycle, human health, biodiversity, and human evolution. He is the author of Climate: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013), and Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2014), now in its third editon.

Zusammenfassung

What drove the evolution of humans, with our uniquely big brains? The Cradle of Humanity presents fascinating and controversial new research which suggests that the geological and climatic history of East Africa's Rift Valley are at the heart of the answer.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Maslin, Mark (Professor of Geography Maslin
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 24.01.2019
• EAN: 9780198704539
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870453-9
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Early Man, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution, Evolution / Evolutionary biology