We, Hominids: An Anthropological Detective Story by Frank Westerman

Author:Frank Westerman [Westerman, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, anthropology, General
ISBN: 9781743821879
Google: _qgaEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2021-08-03T23:32:51.419989+00:00

All right, I’m willing to go along with the view that humankind is the product of accident. But if that’s it, then the accident is of a very specific kind: derailment. Clever as we are, we have succeeded in throwing the switches of evolution and running ourselves right off the rails of nature. As the self-appointed ‘crowning glory of creation’, we have succeeded in polluting the planet, including its atmosphere, so badly that it is killing us. Welcome to the Anthropocene.

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‘FLORES MAN HAD REDUCED BRAIN’

Tokyo – 17 April 2013.

The brain of the dwarf-like humans who lived some 18,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores probably shrank in the course of evolution . . . The finding would seem to indicate that Flores Man was a dwarf version of the archaic human species Homo erectus. This conclusion was reached by researchers from the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. (NU.nl online newspaper)

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