Becoming Human : In the Beginning Was the Technic

By Michel J. F. Dubois

The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786305844
• ISBN13: 9781786305848
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Wiley-Iste
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"