Comments on: Book review – The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:24:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-94997Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:24:19 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2396#comment-94997[…] where the climate rapidly alternated between wet and dry conditions. These periods coincided with new hominin species appearing in the fossil record. Palaeoanthropologist Rick Potts thinks the ability to adapt to extreme climate fluctuations was […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-16148Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:03:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2396#comment-16148[…] I do not know if Mark Maslin agrees with Begun’s thesis, the scenario laid out in his book The Cradle of Humanity is perfectly congruent with it. Maslin’s starts around 5 mya and Begun agrees that the fossil […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-15868Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:58:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2396#comment-15868[…] motif to this book is that we underestimate Neanderthals, something which other authors have also pointed out. But what do birds have to do with […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-6170Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:48:34 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2396#comment-6170[…] have also pointed out (see my reviews of The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us and The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart). But what do birds have to do with […]

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]]>By: Book review – Origins: How the Earth Made Us | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/01/book-review-the-cradle-of-humanity-how-the-changing-landscape-of-africa-made-us-so-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-4183Sun, 26 May 2019 15:19:33 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2396#comment-4183[…] in East Africa. He subscribes to Maslin’s ideas for where and when we evolved, outlined in The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart. The gist of his argument was that it was a combination of plate tectonics and climate. The […]

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