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Last Ape Standing The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived

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By: Chip Walter(Author)
240 pages, plates with colour photos
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  • Last Ape Standing ISBN: 9781620405215 Paperback May 2014 Out of Print #210680
  • Last Ape Standing ISBN: 9780802717566 Hardback Apr 2013 Out of Print #201534
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Over the past 180 years, scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. What enabled us to survive when all the others were shown the evolutionary door? Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's capricious ways we stand here today, the planet's most dominant species. Drawing on a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he reveals how a rare evolutionary phenomenon led to the uniquely long childhoods that make us so resourceful and emotionally complex. Walter explains how the evolution of our highly social nature has shaped our moral (and immoral) behaviour. He also plumbs the roots of our creativity and investigates why we became self-aware in ways that no other animal is.

Along the way, Last Ape Standing profiles the mysterious "others" who evolved with us – the Neanderthals of Europe, the "hobbits" of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the recently discovered Red Deer Cave people of China, who died off just as we stood on the brink of civilization eleven thousand years ago. Last Ape Standing is evocative science writing at its best – a witty, engaging and accessible story that explores the evolutionary events that moulded us into the remarkably unique creatures we are.

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Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. His articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Slate, and numerous other publications and websites. He is the author of three books, most recently Thumbs, Toes, and Tears, and his writing has been published in eight languages. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife Cyndy and their four children.

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By: Chip Walter(Author)
240 pages, plates with colour photos
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