Lost in evolution : exploring humanity's path in Asia / Hiroto Kawabata ; technical advisor, Yousuke Kaifu ; translated by Dana Lewis.
2020
GN281 .K37813 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Lost in evolution : exploring humanity's path in Asia / Hiroto Kawabata ; technical advisor, Yousuke Kaifu ; translated by Dana Lewis.
Uniform Title
Wareware wa naze wareware dake nanoka. English
Edition
First English edition.
ISBN
9784866581330 (hardcover)
4866581336 (hardcover)
4866581336 (hardcover)
Published
Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2020.
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Japanese.
Description
199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Call Number
GN281 .K37813 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
599.938
Summary
Covers particularly Java Man (homo erectus) and "hobbits" (Homo floresiensis) with some treatment of Denisovans and the new finds from the Penghu Channel near Taiwan.
"A book that will change how you think about humanity. Even as societies are beset with turmoil over insignificant human differences such a skin color, Homo sapiens are broadly homogeneous. We're all basically the same. What's more, we're the only human species alive. Yet it has not always been that way. Eons ago, there were many different species many different places. Not only the Peking Man and Cro-Magnons that school textbooks talk about but many more. It was, so to speak, "a world of diversity." Now it is just us. How did this happen? Who were these people? Where did they live? And how did such species diversity end up being just Homo sapiens? With an unequaled focus on events in Asia, this exciting work takes you along on the exploration and the research to answer these questions. Providing new information and new insights, it is a thoughtful look at humanity's evolutionary background." -- Publisher's description
"A book that will change how you think about humanity. Even as societies are beset with turmoil over insignificant human differences such a skin color, Homo sapiens are broadly homogeneous. We're all basically the same. What's more, we're the only human species alive. Yet it has not always been that way. Eons ago, there were many different species many different places. Not only the Peking Man and Cro-Magnons that school textbooks talk about but many more. It was, so to speak, "a world of diversity." Now it is just us. How did this happen? Who were these people? Where did they live? And how did such species diversity end up being just Homo sapiens? With an unequaled focus on events in Asia, this exciting work takes you along on the exploration and the research to answer these questions. Providing new information and new insights, it is a thoughtful look at humanity's evolutionary background." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.
Added Author
Kaifu, Yōsuke, 1969- contributor.
Lewis, Dana (Translator), translator.
Translation of: Kawabata, Hiroto, 1964- Wareware wa naze wareware dake nanoka.
Lewis, Dana (Translator), translator.
Translation of: Kawabata, Hiroto, 1964- Wareware wa naze wareware dake nanoka.
Series
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
Includes
Translation of: Kawabata, Hiroto, 1964- Wareware wa naze wareware dake nanoka.
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Table of Contents
Uncovering Homo erectus in Asia
Overview of human evolution
The Java story
Where it happens : putting science to work on Java man
Grand entrance from an island cave
Big news from the basin
Up from Taiwan's ocean floor
Lost in evolution.
Overview of human evolution
The Java story
Where it happens : putting science to work on Java man
Grand entrance from an island cave
Big news from the basin
Up from Taiwan's ocean floor
Lost in evolution.