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  Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min

  Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins. The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter radically restructured the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa. Symbolic communication transformed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural process. The invention of agriculture revolutionized the relationship between humanity and the environment, and the technologies of interaction led to the birth of civilization. Precision machinery spawned the industrial revolution and the rise of nation-states; and in the next metamorphosis, digital technologies may well unite all of humanity for the benefit of future generations. Synthesizing the findings of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the modern narrative of human evolution that began with the discovery of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. But the same forces that allowed us to integrate technology into every aspect of our daily lives have also brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe. Unbound explains both how we got here and how human society must be transformed again to achieve a sustainable future. Technology: "The deliberate modification of any natural object or substance with forethought to achieve a specific end or to serve a specific purpose." PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022881/bk_adbl_022881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Homo Sapiens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 40min

  Around 13.5 billion years ago, energy, time, matter and space had come to be known as the phenomenon of the Big Bang. The theory of the fundamental features of the universe is referred to as physics. Around 30,000 years when these features had appeared, energy along with matter had started the coalescing into various complex structures referred to as the atoms. These then combined themselves into bigger molecules. The theory of atoms along with molecules as well as its interaction is referred to as the chemistry. Some 3.8 billion years before, on some planet known as the Earth, several molecules had combined to result in some large and well-defined structures known as the organisms. The theory of the organisms is referred to as biology. Around 70,000 years before, the organisms which belonged to the group homo sapiens had started forming even larger and elaborative structures known as the cultures. The development of these cultures is known as history.The humans were present long before the time of history. Various animals like the homo sapiens of the modern times had appeared as early as around 2.5 million years before. However, for several generations, these organisms were not able to stand out from the various other organisms. The biologists have classified the organisms into specific species. The animals could belong to same species when they would have similar characteristics or would mate with their own species. The homo sapiens have been kept hidden as quite a secret with respect to their exact origin and evolution. The homo sapiens are believed to have first evolved in the provinces of Eastern Africa some 2.5 million years before from the earlier genus known as the Australopithecus which implies “Southern Apes”. Here is the detailed theory about the possible origin and evolution of the Homo Sapiens on the Earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100416/bk_acx0_100416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min

  A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century.In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. With this team, Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger's team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi.The cave quickly proved to be the richest prehominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions.Some colleagues question Berger's interpretation of this and other finds. Here, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters their arguments and tells his personal story: a rich narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012810/bk_blak_012810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Paleobiology of Australopithecus

  The Paleobiology of Australopithecus - Auflage 2013: ab 117.49 €

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  4 Fragestellungen zur Evolution der Hominiden

  4 Fragestellungen zur Evolution der Hominiden - Australopithecus / Out of Africa vs. Multi Origin / Homo habilis / Homo antecessor. 1. Auflage: ab 12.99 €

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  The Paleobiology of Australopithecus

  The Paleobiology of Australopithecus: ab 85.49 €

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  The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis

  The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis: ab 149.99 €

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  The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis

  The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis - New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1: ab 96.49 €

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