The Missing Link (Time-Life Emergence of Man) pdf torrent

Time-Life | 1972 | Pdf | Englsh | 160 pages | 21 MB

This book reviews the evidence for the earliest phase of man's evolution: the crucial period when he separated from the common ancestor he shares with the African apes. It is crucial because it was during this period that the most significant characteristics of man's anatomy and behavior were evolved. It may also have been a very precarious time, for our ancestors, vulnerable creatures as they were, might easily have suffered in competition with other animal species and become extinct. But we know they did not: our ancestors survived by a unique adaptation to their environment—they left the friendly forest of their predecessors and became bipedal vegetarians, scavengers and hunters, in open country