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

by Mark Maslin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198704534
• ISBN13: 9780198704539
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"