How to Think Like a Neandertal [Audiobook] download free by Thomas Wynn
- Listen audiobook: How to Think Like a Neandertal
- Author: Thomas Wynn
- Release date: 2013/7/16
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780199329229
- Rating: 9.44 of 10
- Votes: 353
- Review by: Davian Bertram
- Review rating: 9.19 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 2H43M20S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, Shorten, WMA, FLAC, AU, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ZIP, Z, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M24S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals-some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours?In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes-one specimen had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene called FOXP2, which is thought to be related to speech. Given the differencesbetween their faces and ours, their voices probably sounded a bit different, and the range of consonants and vowels they could generate might have been different. But they could talk, and they had a large (perhaps huge) vocabulary-words for places, routes, techniques, individuals, and emotions.Extensive archaeological remains of stone tools and living sites (and, yes, they did often live in caves) indicate that Neandertals relied on complex technical procedures and spent most of their lives in small family groups. The authors sift the evidence that Neandertals had a symbolic culture-looking at their treatment of corpses, the use of fire, and possible body coloring-and conclude that they probably did not have a sense of the supernatural. The book explores the brutal nature of theirlives, especially in northwestern Europe, where men and women with spears hunted together for mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses. They were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn, and not easy to excite. Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening portrait of Neandertals, painting a remarkable picture of these long-vanished people and providing insight, as they go along, into our own minds and culture.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Anthropology, Evolution, Popular Science, Medical Anthropology, Social, Group Or Collective Psychology, Physical Anthropology & Ethnography, Prehistoric Archaeology, Human Biology, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Rocks, Minerals & Fossils
- Download servers: Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, Google Drive, X Cloud. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, Z, DMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.78 USD
- Dimensions: 163x234x16mm
- Weight: 302g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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