The Smart Neanderthal: Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution Audiobook
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution Audiobook
- James Cameron Stewart
- HighBridge Company
- 2019-05-01
- 6 h 22 min
Summary:
Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a ‘cognitive revolution’ (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species pass on and eventually changed all existing archaic Homo varieties, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Roughly we thought.
As Clive Finlayson explains, the latest advances in genetics prove that there was significant interbreeding between Contemporary Humans as well as the about The Smart Neanderthal: Bird Getting, Cave Artwork & The Cognitive Trend Neanderthals. All non-Africans today bring some Neanderthal genes. We’ve also discovered areas of Neanderthal behavior that suggest that they were not really cognitively inferior compared to contemporary humans, as we once believed, and actually had their own rituals and art. Finlayson, who is in the forefront of this study, recounts the discoveries of his team, providing proof that Neanderthals captured birds of victim, and utilized their feathers for symbolic reasons. There is also evidence that Neanderthals practiced other forms of artwork, as the lately found out engravings in Gorham’s Cave Gibraltar indicate.
Linking all the recent evidence, The Savvy Neanderthal casts a new light in the Neanderthals as well as the ‘Cognitive Revolution.’ Finlayson overturns classic narratives of human origins, and raises important queries about who we are really.