Focusing on a pivotal era prior to the Stone Age, the narrative explores the first three million years of hominin evolution. It offers a fresh perspective on how botanical developments influenced early human life, highlighting the critical relationship between plants and the emergence of human societies. This examination sheds light on how these early interactions shaped our ancestors' survival and adaptation.
In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism. Falk theorizes that many characteristics associated with Asperger syndrome are by- products of the evolution of advanced mental processing.
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. This title offers an insider's account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated.