Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up - Kingdon, Jonathan

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Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Kingdon, Jonathan Format: Hardcover with Dust JacketPublished by Princeton University Press, 2003 jonathan Kingdo n's Work Is One Of The Things That Make The Present Day Such An Exciting Time For Anyone With The Slightest Intellectual Curiosity. His Subject Matter Is Our Profound And Thrilling Human Origins, And His Stance Toward It Makes His Work Unique And Priceless. Not Only Is Kingdon A Scientist Of Commanding Authority, He Is An Artist Whose Hand Transmits His Knowledge Through Drawings So Swift And Graceful That Revelation And Admiration Arrive Together. His Wonderful New Book Takes A Characteristically Original Look At One Of The Things That Makes Us Human: Our Walking On Two Legs. There Is No One Alive Who Could Do It Better.-philip Pullman, Author Of the Amber Spyglassjonathan Kingdon Is A Living World Treasure. One Of Africa's Greatest Zoological Artists, He Is Also One Of Zoology's Leading Authorities On Africa's Mammals. A World Class Zoologist, Ecologist, And Writer, He Also Thinks Deeply About Human Prehistory And Evolution. Bipedality Is Humanity's Founding Peculiarity. lowly Origin Is Kingdon's Highly Original Take On How It Came About, And He Manages To Broaden His Canvas To Accommodate All Of Human Evolution. An Artist With Words And A Poet With Images, Only Jonathan Kingdon Could Have Written This Book.-richard Dawkins, University Of Oxford, Fellow Of The Royal Societythis Well-written Book Offers New Insights Into The Biogeographic And Ecological Influences On Human Evolution And Helps Us Make Sense Of The Fossil Record.-colin P. Groves, Australian National Universitykingdon Has Made A Unique Contribution To The Field Of Mammalian Evolution And African Ecology, Both In His Writing And In His Art. His Approach To Human Evolution, With Its Focus On The Natural History Of People And Animals, Is Very Special And Important.-robert A. Foley, University Of Cambridge the Washington Post depending On Whom You Ask, Bipedalism Emerged To Free Up The Arms To Carry Babies And Food, To Allow For A More Distant Line Of Vision, To Keep The Body Cool Or For Phallic Display And Intimidation. But Kingdon, Who Spent His Childhood Among The Thickets Of Tanzania, Has Little Patience For The Surmising That Occurs At Intellectual Hothouses Thousands Of Miles From The African Continent. Instead, He Maintains, This Momentous Transformation Can Only Be Understood Through Intimate Familiarity With The Geography And Climate Within Which It Occurred. - mark Parascandola Show more