About forty thousand years ago, a new kind of hominid suddenly appeared in Europe and Western Asia. This was a creature unlike any of the other hominids then existing - borderline Homo sapiens, and the enigmatic Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.< Homo sapiens sapiens, as he has w come to be kwn, was distinguished from his contemporaries by his increased height, delicate bone structure, and the huge balloon-like cranium that anunced an intelligence that allowed for the radical break with the existing models. We see the results of this intelligence pouring out in an exuberance of material and artistic creativity. In his homeland, which extended from Spain to the Urals, a tiny, gemlike, if frost-encrusted civilization was spontaneously created. Seymour W. Itzkoff focuses in Triumph of the Intelligent on the evolutionary dynamics that led to the production of ever more intelligent humans, finally culminating in this sudden spasm of reconstruction. Itzkoff has followed the evidence carefully, attempting to stay within the assignable limits of evolutionary theory to produce a most-probable model of the dynamics that extruded this enigmatic creature, Homo sapiens sapiens.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820413054
ISBN-13
9780820413051
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128949764
Product Key Features
Author
Seymour w Itzkoff
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
First Published
1989
Date of Publication
01/09/1989
Country of Publication
United States
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