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Books : The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact
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The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact by: Colin Tudge List Price: £18.79 Price: £15.95 You Save: £2.84 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 573.2 EAN: 9780684807263 ISBN: 0684807262 Label: Prentice Hall & IBD Manufacturer: Prentice Hall & IBD Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: January 25, 1996 Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD Studio: Prentice Hall & IBD Sales Rank: 493405 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An extraordinary, awesome, stimulating read!Colin Tudge is a very concerned man. Here, he constructs one of the most complete pictures of human evolution's course. Drawing on geology, meteorology and biology in setting a framework, Tudge explains how and to what extent Homo sapiens emerged from Africa to override the planet. That's a hefty task, particularly in less than four hundred pages. Especially given that he allocates ten per cent of those pages to assessing the future. Tudge's concern about human impact on the environment is the theme of his other works, but this one rests on a solid foundation of evolutionary biology. Tudge Dances Through Time in explaining the movements of continents and the impact of that mobility on life forms. Movement, an adventure life normally ... Read More: Rating:  - best survey of early human extinctions that i have saw.A book worth reading if intrested in anthropology. Tudge starts out with a Good review of mammalian evolution hard to find in its detail discussing population ranges and the advantages/disadvantages of big mammals for survival. The best part of the book is the overview of the extinction theory which proposes that it was not climate change. but human impact that brought so many species to extinction at the end of the ice age. Tudge goes into great detail on this citing evidence on all continents. The final chapter is also intresting dealing with how humanity can survive the enviromental damage done to the earth and survive as a species. A good read. Rating: - Recommended for understanding of humanity's impact on natureThis book is engagingly written and enlightening in its content. Its object, to expand our perspective on the history and the impact on the planet of our genus Homo from its beginning about 5 million years ago, could hardly be more timely. Tudge integrates knowledge from the disciplines of geology, anthropology, archaeology, climatology, and even game theory to provide a framework for understanding. I like his clear explication and illustration of evolutionary principles and mechanisms, in particular his emphasis on the unifying concept of the ecomorph: the outcome of the process by which evolution fits organisms to ecological niches. I like his courage as a non-expert to suggest that the idea of progress may have some usefulness ... Read More: Rating: - Read this book!A valuable and intellectually exciting overview of "how the world works." Includes plate tectonics, climatology, and evolution, with a review of human evolution. Interesting and provocative ideas about extinction. Actually provides a different and persuasive point of view of our current, desperate situation. Unnecessarily detailed and quite tedious review of various families (orders?) of vertebrates, which I skimmed and skipped at will (another reviewer bestowed special praise on this section, however). Well worth reading, with the above caveat. Regrettably lacking in references. Alan Nicoll Rating: - Book will change your perspectiveExciting, fabulous, fascinating subject that changed my perspective about everyday people, persons and things. How many "history" books can you say that about? This book presents the history of our species in an easily understandable story that is stranger than science fiction; two enthusiastic thumbs up |
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