Exploring Human Becoming
What makes us human? Historic
Notable achievements: The fossil story of the human species; Savannah with trees; Savannah with bushes; Man's adaptations to food procurement and life on land; The migrations of the first people
Exemplary stories: the premises of the hypothesis presented in The civilization of hunger—another approach to humanization
Portrait gallery: Charles Darwin cu The Descent of Man, Elaine Morgan with The Descent of Woman, the marine biologist Alistar Hardy with the aquatic hypothesis of humanization, Stephen Jay Gould with the theory of punctuated equilibria and the role of isolation in evolution, Desmond Morris with The empty monkey, Jane Goodall cu In the shadow of man
Exploring humanization through the imaginary. Famous fiction books and movies: it would be from a movie Monkeys planet, the book The empty monkey by Desmond Morris, the film 2001 space odyssey after a book of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke
Unclear hypotheses, conspiracies, mysteries. Famous frauds: Eugene Dubois ass Standing man, Marcelino Sanz de Sautola with drawings from Altamira (Spain), Charles Dawson with Piltdown Man, Mike Morwood with Homo floresiensis, Frans de Waal explains in Mom, one last hug
New perspectives: evo‑devo, the evolutionary theory that makes the connection between evolution and development; a new hypothesis that appears in the book Missing Links in Aging