Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - Hardcover

Wade, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200793 ISBN 13: 9781594200793

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2006

Synopsis

A provocative alternate history of humanity's ancient ancestry and the evolution of human nature draws on ground-breaking scientific findings to offer insight into such debated issues as the evolution of language and race, the domestication of companion animals, and the defeat of the Neanderthals. 40,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholas Wade received a BA in natural sciences from King’s College, Cambridge. He was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal’s Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor.

From AudioFile:

Nicholas Wade, a science reporter, compiles the current knowledge of the last 50,000 years of human evolution. He addresses such topics as language, brain size, tool-making, and race. His use of controversial ideas makes most of the discourse speculative--lots of "may" and "perhaps." Alan Sklar's deep voice never bungles a complicated term. Listeners must be ready for lingo like "allele," "steatopygia," and "anthropophagy." While some narrators can't handle any foreign words, Sklar demonstrates his skill with the African click languages. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200793
• ISBN 13: 9781594200793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320