Product Description
Condition - light sun fade to the spine, internally unmarked, light edgewear to covers. This is a Book Club edition, published 1977. Identical content to the standard edition.
Discusses the evolution of prehistoric ape-like creatures into human beings, theorizing that the key to this transformation was the ability to share & cooperate in a social context.
A key work in popular anthropology, the book seeks to explain how little we know about how early mankingd lived and survived. It does a great job explaining how little we know about where we come from. All of what we know about our ancestors comes from samples of recovered bones that would hardly fill a kitchen cabinet. Even now, 40 years on, the data about early humans and early human evolution is full of gaps. A fascintaing read, illustrated throughout.