The Book Of Humans by Adam Rutherford
The Story of How We Became Us
A wide-ranging exploration of what makes our species distinctive, drawing on genetics, fossils, archaeology and animal behavior to argue that human uniqueness stems not from a single biological breakthrough but from the interaction of complex sociality, language, cooperative childcare and cumulative culture that amplify modest biological differences. The account situates humans on a continuum with other animals—highlighting continuities in cognition and emotion—while explaining how niche construction, networks of shared knowledge and cultural inheritance produced outsized technological, demographic and ecological consequences. It also challenges simplistic genetic determinism and racial myths, portraying human evolution as a messy, contingent process shaped by chance, environment and the feedbacks of culture.
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- 2018
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- British
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- English
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