The Elephant Hunters

di James Frederick Watson (Autore)

James Frederick Watson, 2026

For decades, the leading explanation for the explosive growth of the human brain has been Richard Wrangham's cooking hypothesis — the idea that control of fire and cooked food drove our cognitive evolution. There is one fundamental problem: the archaeological evidence doesn't support it. The brain expansion happened 1.6 million years before reliable evidence of fire. The Elephant Hunters proposes a different answer. The real driver was bone marrow — the most calorie-dense food available on the African savanna, locked inside the bones of the largest animals on Earth. To access it, our ancestors had to become something entirely new: coordinated, strategic, weapon-bearing hunters capable of bringing down prey many times their size. This is the story of how hunting made us human. How the pursuit of megafauna rewired our brains, shaped our language, drove the invention of weapons, and ultimately turned a vulnerable primate into the most dominant predator the planet has ever produced.

• Autore: James Frederick Watson
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: James Frederick Watson
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233383380