Download or read book N andertal mon fr re 300 000 ans d histoire de l homme written by Silvana Condemi and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2019-05-29T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qui était Néandertal ? Un singe repoussant ou un roux à la peau diaphane ? Un charognard ou un chasseur génial qui maîtrisait le langage et vénérait déjà ses morts ? Et se pourrait-il qu’il soit encore parmi nous ? La génétique l’avait annoncé, la paléoanthropologie le confirme : Homo neanderthalensis et Homo sapiens ont mélangé leurs cultures, mais aussi leurs gènes sur le même territoire européen, et ce pendant au moins 5 000 ans. Néandertal serait donc le frère d’Homo sapiens, et non son cousin éloigné, comme on l’a longtemps pensé. Bouleversée par l’apparition de méthodes de recherche inédites, notre histoire ancienne se récrit très vite et nous réserve des surprises de taille. Dans cette passionnante enquête, les auteurs dressent le portrait le plus actuel de notre étrange ancêtre et passent en revue les multiples hypothèses qui pourraient expliquer sa disparition. Car mieux connaître notre frère Néandertal, c’est en savoir beaucoup plus sur nous-mêmes.
Download or read book N andertal mon fr re written by Silvana Condemi and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2016-10-26T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les amants de Vérone version préhistorique... C’est ainsi qu’en 2013 la presse saluait la découverte majeure de l’auteure : l’identification du premier os appartenant à un métis de père sapiens et de mère néandertalienne. La génétique l’avait annoncé, la paléoanthropologie le confirmait : Homo neanderthalensis et Homo sapiens ont mélangé leurs cultures, mais aussi leurs gènes sur le même territoire européen, et ce pendant plus de 5 000 ans. Mais alors qui est Néandertal ? Moins un singe repoussant qu’un roux à la peau diaphane ? Moins un charognard qu’un chasseur génial qui maîtrisait le langage et vénérait déjà ses morts ? Se pourrait-il qu’il soit encore parmi nous ? Bouleversée par l’irruption de méthodes inédites, notre histoire ancienne se récrit très vite, avec des surprises de taille. Dans cette passionnante enquête, les auteurs dressent le portrait le plus actuel de notre étrange ancêtre et passent en revue les multiples hypothèses sur sa disparition présumée. Ce faisant, ils posent la question de notre « réussite » évolutive, au vu de la terrible empreinte que nous laissons sur tout ce qui nous entoure.
Download or read book N andertal un parent written by Rebecca Wragg Sykes and published by Delachaux et Niestlé. This book was released on 2022-04-29T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appréhender l’immensité du temps archéologique et tisser une connexion avec nos lointains parents constituent un véritable défi. Pourtant, l’homme n’a de cesse de s’interroger sur lui-même et ses prédécesseurs. Ce livre propose de s’aventurer dans l’univers d’un ancêtre aujourd’hui disparu : l’homme de Néandertal. Glaciers, toundras, forêts chaudes, déserts, montagnes, littoraux... Davantage Eurasien qu’Européen, Néandertal a peuplé un espace immense allant du nord du pays de Galles aux frontières de la Chine et, vers le sud, à la marge du désert d’Arabie. Loin des stéréotypes attachés à la figure de l’homme de cavernes, notre ancêtre est décrit dans ce livre comme un être curieux et inventif, habile et pragmatique. Fin connaisseur de son environnement, il a été capable de survivre et de s’adapter durant près de 350 000 ans, malgré d’importants bouleversements climatiques. En fin de compte, et en dépit de millénaires d’écart, Néandertal n’est pas si éloigné de nous. Grâce aux spectaculaires progrès scientifiques en matière d’analyse et de datation, et aux découvertes archéologiques des 30 dernières années, l’approche de sa pensée et de son mode de vie évolue constamment. Coopération, altruisme, artisanat, sens de l’esthétique, imagination... Et si, finalement, partir à la découverte de Néandertal, c’était partir à la découverte de nous-mêmes ?
Download or read book N andertal la plage written by Silvana Condemi and published by Dunod. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’homme de Néandertal ne cesse d’alimenter notre curiosité. Il a vécu en Europe entre 400 000 ans et 30 000 ans avant notre ère. Jusqu’à récemment il a été décrit purement et simplement comme une brute épaisse, plus proche du singe que de l’homme. Aujourd’hui tout a changé. Les chercheurs ont fait parler son ADN : on connaît la composition de son sang, ses chromosomes. Nous savons désormais que Néandertal ne ressemblait pas à un singe, mais qu’il avait la peau claire et les cheveux blonds ou roux... Nous avons désormais aussi des preuves que Sapiens et Néandertal se sont fréquentés, et même plus que fréquentés puisque 1 à 4% de nos gènes nous viennent de Néandertal. Installez-vous confortablement dans un transat et laissez-vous conter par Silvana Condemi et Jean-François Mondot l'étonnante histoire de nos frères disparus.
Download or read book A Pocket History of Human Evolution How We Became Sapiens written by Silvana Condemi and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo sapiens really are. Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the Denisovans—and confirmed that crossbreeding with them (and Neanderthals) made Homo sapiens who we are today. A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our “large” brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today—from gossip as modern “grooming” to our gendered division of labor—and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
Download or read book The Emergence of Culture written by Philip Chase and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could have evolved, and to explain why culture plays such a pervasive role in human life. It then reviews the primatological, fossil, and archaeological data to test these hypotheses.
Download or read book The Challenge of Evolution to Religion written by Johan De Smedt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious worldviews tend to presuppose a teleological understanding of the origins of living things, but scientists mostly understand evolution as non-teleological. Second, religious and scientific accounts of human origins do not align in a straightforward sense. Third, evolutionary explanations of religion, including religious beliefs and practices, may cast doubt on their justification. We show how these tensions arise and offer potential responses for religion. Individual religions can meet these challenges, if some of their metaphysical assumptions are adapted or abandoned.
Download or read book Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe written by Silvana Condemi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among the general public. In fact, we know far more about Neanderthals than we do about any other extinct human population. Furthermore, over the past 150 years no other palaeospecies has been such a constant source of discussion and fierce debate among palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists. This book presents the status of our knowledge as well as the methods and techniques used to study this extinct population and it suggests perspectives for future research.
Download or read book Manual of Physical Anthropology written by Juan Comas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by Pierre Bourdieu Preface by Loic J.D. Wacquant I Toward a Social Praxeology: The Structure and Logic of Bourdieu's Sociology, Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 Beyond the Antinomy of Social Physics and Social Phenomenology 2 Classification Struggles and the Dialectic of Social and Mental Structures 3 Methodological Relationalism 4 The Fuzzy Logic of Practical Sense 5 Against Theoreticism and Methodologism: Total Social Science 6 Epistemic Reflexivity 7 Reason, Ethics, and Politics II The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop), Pierre Bourdieu and Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 Sociology as Socioanalysis 2 The Unique and the Invariant 3 The Logic of Fields 4 Interest, Habitus, Rationality 5 Language, Gender, and Symbolic Violence 6 For a, Realpolitik of Reason 7 The Personal is Social III The Practice of Reflexive Sociology (The Paris Workshop), Pierre Bourdieu 1 Handing Down a Trade 2 Thinking Relationally 3 A Radical Doubt 4 Double Bind and Conversion 5 Participant Objectivation Appendixes, Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 How to Read Bourdieu 2 A Selection of Articles from, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 3 Selected Recent Writings on Pierre Bourdieu.
Download or read book Stable Isotope Ecology written by Brian Fry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid introduction to stable isotopes that can also be used as an instructive review for more experienced researchers and professionals. The book approaches the use of isotopes from the perspective of ecological and biological research, but its concepts can be applied within other disciplines. A novel, step-by-step spreadsheet modeling approach is also presented for circulating tracers in any ecological system, including any favorite system an ecologist might dream up while sitting at a computer. The author’s humorous and lighthearted style painlessly imparts the principles of isotope ecology. The online material contains color illustrations, spreadsheet models, technical appendices, and problems and answers.
Download or read book Beyond Art written by California Academy of Sciences and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed for the California Academy of Sciences Distributed for the California Academy of Sciences
Download or read book The Plains of Passage with Bonus Content written by Jean M. Auel and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues. Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have never seen tame animals--Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands, but also for his skill as a crafter of stone tools, and for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower. In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. All the pain and pleasure bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on earth they can call home. As sweeping and spectacular as the land she creates, Jean M. Auel’s The Plains of Passage is an astonishing novel of discovery, danger, and love, a triumph for one of the world’s most original and popular authors. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series • A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series
Download or read book City of Man written by Michael Gerson and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An era has ended. The political expression that most galvanized evangelicals during the past quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading. What's ahead is unclear. Millions of faith-based voters still exist, and they continue to care deeply about hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage, but the shape of their future political engagement remains to be formed. Into this uncertainty, former White House insiders Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner seek to call evangelicals toward a new kind of political engagement -- a kind that is better both for the church and the country, a kind that cannot be co-opted by either political party, a kind that avoids the historic mistakes of both the Religious Left and the Religious Right. Incisive, bold, and marked equally by pragmatism and idealism, Gerson and Wehner's new book has the potential to chart a new political future not just for values voters, but for the nation as a whole.
Download or read book Blind written by Sophie Calle and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No stranger to the art of staging and to the act of disclosure, Sophie Caile returns again here to the theme of autobiography and to the notion of the Other, revealing in all their difference and singularity those who have been blind since birth or who have gone blind following an accident. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and the photographs taken by her on the basis on these accounts, Sophie Caile offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another, on the notion of the visible and the invisible. In this publication, she revisits three earlier works constructed and conceived around the idea ofblindness, setting up a dialogue between them; in Les Aveugles (The Blind), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in La Couleur aveugle (Blind Colour), she asked non-sighted people what they perceived and compared their descriptions to artists musings on the monochrome; La Dernière Image (The Last Image), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, historically dubbed the city of the blind, gives a voice to men and women who have lost their sight, questioning them on the last image they can remember, their last memory of the visible world. The work, which is structured as an introspective triptych, uncovers sensibilities, perceptions and events that are painful, sincere. Sophie Calles idea is to underline the permanence and irony of a particular situation, with the aim of redeeming and highlighting the importance of sight.
Download or read book The Problems of the Arid Zone written by Unesco and published by paris. This book was released on 1962 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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