Buy Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Tattersall, Ian online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: Well written, nicely brief and well balanced in describing bones, tools, genetics and symbolic artefacts. Begins with description of a variety of different lineages of early hominids 7 million years ago (nicely summarised in a figure), the developments towards bipedalism and use of first tools, and the complexity of interpreting the findings. I particularly enjoyed reading about our more recent predecessors – H. heidelbergensis and H. neanderthalensis (who actually are not our ancestors). The modern humans took over as they developed symbolic thinking, which our predecessors lacked. I found the arguments well balanced and convincing. I found missing a good schematic map with the archaeological finds and dates, or a summary table. If the book was written in 2018, I’d like to see more genetics. This however would not warrant to subtract a star. This is a must read for everybody interested in human origins. Review: Author is well credentialed, has a easy to read writing style. I enjoyed and learned from the book.Well grounded in current thought on the subject. Do not expect a 'cutting-edge' new theory of everything.
| ASIN | 1137278307 |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (119) |
| Dimensions | 15.67 x 1.73 x 23.7 cm |
| Edition | Reprint |
| ISBN-10 | 9781137278302 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1137278302 |
| Item weight | 308 g |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| Publication date | 28 May 2013 |
| Publisher | SMP-Griffin |
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Well written, nicely brief and well balanced in describing bones, tools, genetics and symbolic artefacts. Begins with description of a variety of different lineages of early hominids 7 million years ago (nicely summarised in a figure), the developments towards bipedalism and use of first tools, and the complexity of interpreting the findings. I particularly enjoyed reading about our more recent predecessors – H. heidelbergensis and H. neanderthalensis (who actually are not our ancestors). The modern humans took over as they developed symbolic thinking, which our predecessors lacked. I found the arguments well balanced and convincing. I found missing a good schematic map with the archaeological finds and dates, or a summary table. If the book was written in 2018, I’d like to see more genetics. This however would not warrant to subtract a star. This is a must read for everybody interested in human origins.
T**A
Author is well credentialed, has a easy to read writing style. I enjoyed and learned from the book.Well grounded in current thought on the subject. Do not expect a 'cutting-edge' new theory of everything.
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m'ha agradat molt per posar-me al dia. Esperava que la primera part em resultes mes feixuga, però al contrari els primers capitols es fan super interessants, potser per això sobre l'apartat que tenia més espectatives se m'ha fet una mica mes curt. De tota manera un llibre super agradable de llegir, recomanable!
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The criticism by danielx about 'hyoid bone' is misleaded, as can be seen among many other sources, on the english Wikipedia page :[...]
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