Origins: Going Back to Where the Story Really Starts (preview)

Written by Scientific American Topic - Epidemics & Pandemics on July 28, 2010 – 2:00 pm -

We are always telling stories about the world, the universe, ourselves. It helps to make sense of things. But sometimes, through familiarity or neglect, we get lost. We forget where a story really starts, losing sight of where it’s headed. What is biodiversity? Are electric cars new? Even the well-worn tale of human origins is missing a key chapter: how a small band of hunter-gatherers survived a climate disaster, becoming ancestors of us all. Here we provide the surprising origins of some strange and familiar things.

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Hunter-gatherer - Biodiversity - Human evolution - Fiction - Arts


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