human evolution

An exploration of human creativity that looks at the cognitive software that generates new ideas.

Amazing visuals and 3-D images help readers comprehend the remarkable history of human evolution.

Draws on new findings to examine the ancestral human population that lived in Africa fifty thousand years ago, explaining how the human line evolved from African apes to humans with the unique gift of language.

"... [an] argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--Amazon.com.

Offers predictions about the economic implications for a future of widely expanding intelligence, and practical career and investment advice on flourishing on the way to the Singularity.

A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history.

An account of the discoveries of the remains of early man and a reconstruction of his life as it must have been.

Discusses the evolution of animal life and its relationship to the physical, intellectual and social evolutionary development of man.

An account of the evolutionary process by which nonman was transformed to man, and of the characteristics, lives and achievements of Homo erectus, the first man.