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Out of Africa
Landed in London a few days ago and arrived in Oxford England today as I continue my assignment for National Geographic magazine, a result of work I did on my book Last Ape Standing published in January. Been on the road nearly three weeks, but the experience and work has been endlessly fascinating.
I'm behind because bandwidth in Africa was pretty thin, but please visit www.chipwalter.com/blog for updates from Africa, with more to come.
I'm behind because bandwidth in Africa was pretty thin, but please visit www.chipwalter.com/blog for updates from Africa, with more to come.
Published on March 17, 2013 16:03
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Childhood Is Why We Are the Last Ape Standing
This is from my January 29, 2013 Slate.com article which explores how our long childhoods enabled us to survive and become The Last Ape Standing. (Published by Bloomsbury/Walker Books.)
There’s a misco This is from my January 29, 2013 Slate.com article which explores how our long childhoods enabled us to survive and become The Last Ape Standing. (Published by Bloomsbury/Walker Books.)
There’s a misconception among a lot of us Homo sapiens that we and our direct ancestors are the only humans ever to have walked the planet. It turns out that the emergence of our kind isn’t nearly that simple. The whole story of human evolution is messy, and the more we look into the matter, the messier it becomes.
Paleoanthropologists have discovered...
Read more on Slate here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_... ...more
There’s a misco This is from my January 29, 2013 Slate.com article which explores how our long childhoods enabled us to survive and become The Last Ape Standing. (Published by Bloomsbury/Walker Books.)
There’s a misconception among a lot of us Homo sapiens that we and our direct ancestors are the only humans ever to have walked the planet. It turns out that the emergence of our kind isn’t nearly that simple. The whole story of human evolution is messy, and the more we look into the matter, the messier it becomes.
Paleoanthropologists have discovered...
Read more on Slate here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_... ...more
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