Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

(John Hannent) #1

Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 7.


Fagan, People of the Earth, chaps. 4–6.


Ristvet, In the Beginning, chap. 1.


Christian, This Fleeting World.


Flannery, The Future Eaters.


Mithen, After the Ice.



  1. Does human history during the Paleolithic era support the claim that we
    are, indeed, radically different from all other animals?

  2. What enabled our ancestors to settle almost all of the world during the
    Paleolithic era?


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