Fire: The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826346464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Based on her extensive research with nonhuman primates, anthropologist Frances Burton details the stages of the conquest of fire and the systems it affected. As it first associated with and then began to tame fire, this extraordinary being began to distance itself from its primate relatives, taking a path that would alter its environment, physiology, and self-image. Her study examines the natural occurrence of fire and describes the effects light has on human physiology. The association between our ancestors and fire, somewhere around six to four million years ago, had a tremendous impact on human evolution, transforming our earliest human ancestor, a being communicating without speech but with insight, reason, manual dexterity, highly developed social organization, and the capability of experimenting with this new technology. She constructs possible variations of our earliest human ancestor and its way of life, utilizing archaeological and anthropological evidence of the earliest human-controlled fires to explore the profound physical and biological impacts fire had on human evolution.
Frances D. She has studied primates in Costa Rica, Honduras, Barbados, China, Malaysia, Kenya, Morocco, and Gibraltar, examining the biological bases of behavior. Her many publications include the edited volume Social Process and Mental Abilities in Non-Human Primates: Evidences from Longitudinal Field Studies and a pioneering CD titled
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Anthropology professor and primate expert Burton combs the evidence for clues to how our ancestors went from observing wild grassland fires to producing and using their own, and how that ability furthered evolutionary development. At the heart of thetext lies a detailed study of light; Burton details the quantity of light produced by various natural sources, from a moonless night to bright sunlight, and discusses how light reception impacts humans. With great detail and concise arguments, this well-sourced work will fascinate armchair scientists with an i
Ken McAloon said well worth it. This is a hard slog. The book is very ambitious. The author is frank in that on some important points, her point of view is just that and it disagrees often enough with Wrangham's new book on this topic. The book is very rich, bringing in the latest research in fields that have (it would seem) just been christened. The thoroughness and the persistence pay off; the book is a real intellectua. Midwest Book Review said The story of fire, and as such, the story of mankind. Fire is truly the one thing that separates man from beast. "Fire: The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution" traces the history of fire through ancient times to the modern age. If man never gained control of fire, humanity would have never become the technologically advanced species we are today, but may in fact have died out tens of thousands of years ago. Fire is truly a fascinating thing, a. Fire Fired Yvens B Fernandes I bought this book with great interest and enthusiasm and read it completely. I was rather disappointed by its content. The author unintentionally repeats herself all along the chapters of the book, turning the pages boring. It has some clues about the origin of fire and how humans beings used it. Nevertheless the flame of "Fire" is not high. Many other questions or reasons about fire could