Becoming Human: In the Beginning was Technique
Michel Dubois, "Becoming Human: In the Beginning was Technique"
English | ISBN: 1786305844 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1786305844 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.