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An award-winning science writer, Ann Gibbons introduces the various maverick fossil hunters and describes their most significant discoveries in Africa. There is Tim White, the irreverent and brilliant Californian whose team discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived more than 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia. If White can prove that it was hominid, an ancestor of humans and not of chimpanzees or other great apes, he can lay claim to discovering the oldest known member of the human family. As White painstakingly prepares the bones, the French paleontologist Michel Brunet comes forth with another, even more startling find. Well known for his work in the most remote and hostile locations, Brunet and his team uncover a stunning skull in Chad that could set the date of the beginnings of humankind to almost seven million years ago.
Two other groups, one led by the zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by the British geologist Martin Pickford and his partner, Brigitte Senut, a French paleontologist, enter the race with landmark discoveries of other fossils vying for the status of the first human ancestor.
Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human takes listeners behind the scenes to reveal the intense challenges of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.
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Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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A Good Overview
- De Brandon en 02-08-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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A Story of Us
- A New Look at Human Evolution
- De: Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future.
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A glimpse into the lives of our ancestors.
- De Casey B. en 07-22-22
De: Lesley Newson, y otros
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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- De: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.
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Mammalian Bipedalism's Many Layers
- De Sarah C. en 06-07-22
De: Jeremy DeSilva
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White—"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"—uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar region. The findings challenged many assumptions about human evolution and repudiated a half-century of paleoanthropological orthodoxy. An intriguing tale of scientific discovery, obsession and rivalry that moves from the sun-baked desert of Africa to modern high-tech labs and academic lecture halls, Fossil Men is popular science at its best, and a must-listen for fans of Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson.
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Oh narrator
- De Paul en 01-21-21
De: Kermit Pattison
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Cave of Bones
- De: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrado por: Lee Berger
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.
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Engaging and interesting but may trigger claustrophobia
- De M en 09-03-23
De: Lee Berger, y otros
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Before the Dawn
- Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.
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Amazing information
- De Albert en 06-15-07
De: Nicholas Wade
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- De: Paul Pettitt
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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A Good Overview
- De Brandon en 02-08-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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A Story of Us
- A New Look at Human Evolution
- De: Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future.
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A glimpse into the lives of our ancestors.
- De Casey B. en 07-22-22
De: Lesley Newson, y otros
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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- De: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.
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Mammalian Bipedalism's Many Layers
- De Sarah C. en 06-07-22
De: Jeremy DeSilva
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- De: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrado por: Aimée Ayotte
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.
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Brave Attempt
- De Bill Treat en 10-15-22
De: Madelaine Böhme
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Hominids
- The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer, called a Companion, implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. But it can't help his fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder.
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Scicen Fiction Can Be Literature
- De Scott en 08-10-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Prehistory
- Making of the Human Mind
- De: Colin Renfrew
- Narrado por: Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory - human existence that predates the development of written records - while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself.
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not for the intellectually challenged
- De Anthony en 07-14-10
De: Colin Renfrew
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- De: Daniel Lieberman
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.
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Could Have Been Good, but...
- De Trebla en 04-08-18
De: Daniel Lieberman
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- De: Svante Pääbo
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.
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Excellent science tale
- De Neuron en 01-19-15
De: Svante Pääbo
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals.
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Fantastic Book
- De Peter Jensen en 09-08-22
De: Steve Brusatte
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- Sulpicia
- 06-26-18
An interesting look at the politics of discovery
This was a really interesting book for those interested in paleoanthropology! It is focused on the discoverers rather than the discoveries themselves, so it reads a little bit like a gossip column at times. Lots of fun, for those interested in the science.
Since the pace of paleoanthropological discovery seems to be speeding up, this book is already slightly out of date (it was published in 2006). It remains useful.
The narrator is fine, but she constantly mispronounces words. Mispronunciations of foreign words would be excusable (and there is a little of that). The real problem is incorrect stressing of words (e.g. "permit" the noun pronounced as "permit" the verb, etc.). This makes it sound like the narrator has no idea what she's reading.
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- Fred V.
- 08-28-22
Naughty Boys Fossil Finders
Fossil hunters look for archaic humans. Some finds are debatable: is it chimp/ape or the first creature on the trail to Brad Pitt. What's not debatable is the upright bipedal fossil freaks are entirely HUMAN. They seek glory and gratitude, prizes and praise. They play the game and crave the thrill of victory and don't care who suffers the agony of defeat. HUMANS. Yes, HUMANS.
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- L. Brevig
- 11-20-21
Narrator is really awful
I'm going to have to stop listening to this. The narrator keeps pronouncing Meave Leakey's name wrong and it's driving me crazy. It's not MAYVE, it's pronounced MEEVE. If it was spelled Maeve, she'd be right. Did no one tell her this? Also, she's narrating like she's talking to a kindergarten class, not adults who have some familiarity with the subject. The book is very superficial so far and the author is having a love-fest with Tim White. I admire him and his work, but am not in love with him. Book is not for me.
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- Ted
- 09-23-06
Good Content, Bad Narration
Gibbons covers her topic thoroughly and weaves together the complete story so that it keeps the listener's attention throughout. I agree with Michael from Baltimore's review that the tensions among paleanthropologists is one of the fascinating aspects of the whole story.
However, be advised that the narration has problems. This production needed much better editorial oversight. Raudman's peculiar inflections frequently over-emphasize a word, disrupting the flow. She sometimes sounded as though she were reading a children's story. Raudman also mis-pronounces various words: Oligocene (ollie GOH seen?), Poitiers, and many other words throughout. The result for me was that at certain moments, I had to mentally replay sentences in order to repair the author's original meaning. The issue is actually not a problem of having a bad narrator. Rather, it shows that the producers of the audio program did not pay sufficient attention to editorial detail--certainly not to the level warranted by the author's effort to produce an excellent popular science narrative.
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- cbrann
- 09-08-06
Science writing at its very best
Wow. Someone once said to me, “If you can’t do the job without being a jerk, then you can’t do the job.” Ann Gibbons clearly spells out for us, the uninitiated, this: there are some serious jerks in paleoanthropology. Without naming names, let's just say that the quality of the insulting hyperbolic nutty criticisms and analogies documented here is only slightly superior to what you might find exchanged among some affluent US middle school students. So, do jerks help or inhibit science? Or, how much of a jerk do you have to be to be a successful paleoanthropologist? How does being a jerk help you find hominid fossils? Surprisingly, answers to these apparently ridiculous questions begin to reveal themselves as you listen. In all seriousness, this is an exciting book about an exciting time that is happening right now. I did not want the book to end, but when it did, I realized that it ended exactly in the present, and I was in the thick of it. Now I feel like I am part of this exciting, unprecedented, lucky, agonizing, contentious, rush to find where we came from. It really is that good. MB
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- JD
- 06-03-19
Worth Reading
Excellent The most up to date book I have read. It delves into the good bad and ugly of science.
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- A book reader
- 10-14-06
Interesting subject, poor execution
I'm interested in paleoanthropology, and the story of the discovery of the first hominids is a compelling one.
Unfortunately, Ann Gibbons doesn't tell the story all that well. There are a few too many characters in this story, and Gibbons seems to feel like she needs to give a mini-bio for everyone she introduces. This doesn't work because sometimes the profiles are longer than the part in the story the character plays. Very annoying. Gibbons also tries overly hard to bring the reader into the story, i.e. to take the reader there, with some pretty silly examples. This is not great science writing.
However, what's really bad is the narration. Rodman reads the book like she's reading a story to a Kindergarten class, complete with excitement in her voice at all the wrong parts. I would probably be able to recommend this book had the narration been better, but as it was I couldn't wait to finish with it because the reading was so grating.
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- Libby
- 01-11-11
Worst narration ever
In four years of listening, I have never written a review on Audible. Experience listening has also taught me that I am almost never bothered by narrators in the way many folks are. But the narrator on this is just abysmal-- with few exceptions, she pronounces almost every, single scientific word incorrectly. Since I am an anthropologist myself, it grated so hard on the ears I gave up and just read the book. I’m mostly concerned about listeners interested in paleoanthropology with no formal educational background in it. I can just see Audible listeners dropping references to “Homo hab-i-lee” at their cocktail parties (the “s” on the end of Homo habilis is not silent, Ms. Raudman). Ugh.
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- Michael McCormack
- 08-05-18
disappointing
The book lacked substance and the narrating was horrible. There was more information about the anthropologists personal lives than facts about the history and lineage of man. I couldn't get through the book let alone enjoy it. very disappointing.
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- Roger
- 01-23-14
An insider book
What would have made The First Human better?
Less mundane detail about the paleoanthropologists. The story lacked any interesting information for those not immersed in the field.
What was most disappointing about Ann Gibbons’s story?
It was boring. The topic is very interesting but this story was as uninteresting as a book about the lives of random office workers, accountants or other ordinary people. I was expecting more on the topic rather than the paleoanthropologists.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narration style was similar to those used by NPR correspondents. A quiet whispery voice that tended to drone on when you have a long narration. With the less than exciting story, the soft narration style contributed to nodding off.
What character would you cut from The First Human?
There were no characters to cut from this type of book.
Any additional comments?
Serious paleoanthropology students or researchers probably would enjoy the book. That is why I called it an "Insider's Book".
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