Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

Ian Tattersall

266 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced

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Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distingu...

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