Mark Maslin: Cradle of Humanity | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780198704539 | Cradle of Humanity | Mark Maslin | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019

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Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage. In this book Mark Maslin brings together the latest insights from hominin fossils and combines them with evidence of the changing landscape of the East African Rift Valley to show how all these factors led to selection pressures that favoured our ultrasocial brains. Astronomy, geology, climate, and landscape all had a part to play in making East Africa the cradle of humanity and allowing us to dominate the planet.

Über den Autor

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.

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198704539
ISBN-10:	0198704534
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Maslin, Mark
Hersteller:	OXFORD UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	203 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Maslin
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.03.2019
Gewicht:	0,293 kg