A comprehensive reference is divided into three parts: The Beginning of Life explains natural processes such as evolution, reproduction, and photosynthesis; Ecology explores the interrelationships between species in various habitats; and the third section profiles wildlife through close-up photography.
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? What will our world be like in the millennia to come?
Dr Yuval Noah Harari gives us an insights from biology, anthropology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.
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Origins of the Human Mind [Audiobook
With the latest advancements in both our understanding of the brain and the technology we use to look inside it, scientists have vastly improved their understanding of the human mind. Now, more so than at any other point in human history, we can better explain and describe how the human mind has evolved, both on the scale of our entire species from the dawn of humanity to the present, and on the individual level from birth to adulthood.
Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, lived within a conservation area, in Kenya. The large animal has died. It was often described as the world’s loneliest rhinoceros. In the latest issue, we outline the tragic fate of rhinos and explain why all but one of their species is close to extinction.
The formal and expressive range of canonic eighteenth-century fiction is enourmous: between them Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne seem to have anticipated just about every question confronting the modern novelist; and Aphra Behn even raises a number of issues overlooked by her male successors. But one might also reverse the coin: much of what is present in these writers will today seem remote and bizarre. There is, in fact, only one novelist from the 'long' eighteenth century who is not an endangered species outside the protectorates of university English departments: Jane Austen. Plenty of people read her, moreover, without the need for secondary literature.
