Michel J. F. Dubois

Gebundenes Buch

Humans in the Making

In the Beginning Was Technique

Beschreibung

The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.

Autor

Michel J.F. Dubois was Director of Agriculture at the Institut polytechnique UniLaSalle, France, until 2016. He now conducts research as part of the InterACT team at the Institut polytechnique UniLaSalle in sustainable development and innovation in agriculture. He is an agronomist engineer and holds a PhD in biology, as well as a PhD and a habilitation in philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-ISTE
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W786305840
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781786305848
• ISBN-10: 1786305844
• Artikelnr.: 60199459