Last Ape Standing
The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
Book Summary
Seeks to explain why homo sapiens survived while other hominids did not, drawing on recent scientific discoveries and examining the survival value of such factors as premature births, long childhoods, and an extremely social nature.
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