Origins : how Earth's history shaped human history /
Dartnell, Lewis,
Origins : how Earth's history shaped human history / How Earth's history shaped human history. Lewis Dartnell. - First U.S. edition. - New York : Basic Books, [2019], ©2019. - 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Originally published in January 2019 by The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-323) and index.
The making of us -- Continental drifters -- Our biological bounty -- The geography of the seas -- What we build with -- Our metallic world -- Silk roads and steppe peoples -- The global wind machine and the Age of Discovery -- Energy.
A science professor discusses how the earth itself helped shape the history of the human species, explaining how mountainous terrain led to Greek democracy and how atmospheric patterns shaped the progress of exploration and colonization.
9781541617902 1541617908
2018967549
Human evolution.
Human beings--Origin.
History.
GN281.4 / D378 2019
Origins : how Earth's history shaped human history / How Earth's history shaped human history. Lewis Dartnell. - First U.S. edition. - New York : Basic Books, [2019], ©2019. - 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Originally published in January 2019 by The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-323) and index.
The making of us -- Continental drifters -- Our biological bounty -- The geography of the seas -- What we build with -- Our metallic world -- Silk roads and steppe peoples -- The global wind machine and the Age of Discovery -- Energy.
A science professor discusses how the earth itself helped shape the history of the human species, explaining how mountainous terrain led to Greek democracy and how atmospheric patterns shaped the progress of exploration and colonization.
9781541617902 1541617908
2018967549
Human evolution.
Human beings--Origin.
History.
GN281.4 / D378 2019