Last Ape Standing by Chip Walter
The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
A concise exploration of seven million years of human evolution, explaining why our species survived while many hominin cousins disappeared. Blending fossils, genetics, and neuroscience, it emphasizes how curiosity, prolonged childhood, social cooperation, imagination, and cultural innovation—amid shifting environments and chance—shaped flexible brains and behaviors that enabled survival, creativity, and global expansion.
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- 2013
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- American
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- 256-272
- Original Language
- English
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