epub |eng | | Author:Gosselin, Mia

The Renaissance The immortality of the soul in Renaissance philosophy. In the fourteenth century Ockham introduced the “via nova,” and was of great influence, while others, and curiously amongst them ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Daniel J. Fairbanks

In 1981, Stephen J. Gould published one of the most significant works of his illustrious career: a book titled The Mismeasure of Man.1 It reviews how scholars from the eighteenth ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Jeremy Narby

THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, my approach has consisted of translating the shamanism of ayahuasqueros to make it understandable to a Western audience. I believe it is in the interest of Amazonia’s ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

By preserving the ruins, the National Trust feeds this belief that the worst is yet to come. Of course, the millions who visit historic houses and gardens have a gentle, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-20 | Author:Frans de Waal

MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...

mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

TWELVE ALONE IN A CROWDED UNIVERSE While humans are unique among Earth's species, the enormous number of stars suggests that intelligent creatures like us must have evolved elsewhere in the ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Jared Diamond

Step 4. To identify these changes of function, Sillén-Tullberg and Møller got the bright idea of studying the family tree of living primate species. They thereby hoped to identify the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Stringer

Neanderthals used pigments too—these are of manganese dioxide from Pech-de-l’Azé in France. In support of that last viewpoint, there is arguably even stronger evidence of complex Neanderthal social behavior from ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |ru | 1999-12-31 | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 8 Fat, Flints, and Furs MORAVIA, LATE WINTER, TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND years ago. The twelve-year-old boy sits listlessly by the hearth, shoulders sagging, seemingly exhausted. He has spent the day ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Jeff Benedict [Benedict, Jeff]

21 ABOUT-FACE Friday, October 18 National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. “This is bullshit!” Dennis Stanford said to himself, banging down the receiver. Lauryn Grant, a lawyer in the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Richard Leakey [RICHARD LEAKEY]

FIGURE 5.1 Neanderthal relations. Neanderthals share some features with Homo sapiens, such as a large brain, and some with Homo erectus, such as a long, low skull and prominent brow ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Zuk, Marlene [Zuk, Marlene]

(© Kim Warp/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com) On Cavemanforum.com, readers chime in: It’s actually also true than [sic] girls are more likely to settle for the less alpha-type guys, but if ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Marvin L. Lubenow

sary to show all of the fossils in their time relationships. This distortion should be taken into consideration when studying the charts. Excluded from the chart of anatomically modern Homo ...