What is it about?
The nature of modern humans and their characteristics were determined by the history of their genetic changes, especially during the late Ice Age. This book explains all the differences between robust humans, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, and present-day humans, and how they came to be.
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Why is it important?
This book presents the first major change since Darwin's seminal work one and a half centuries earlier. It explains that modern humans are the result of unintentional self-domestication that is still occurring today.
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This page is a summary of: The Human Condition, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9353-3.
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