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The incredible human journey, Alice Roberts ; read by the author

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The incredible human journey

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Alice Roberts ; read by the author

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to the Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon Basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents.On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal obstacles our ancestors had to overcome: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors set out from Africa there were already two other species of humans on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo Erectus in Asia. Both (contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So, Alice asks, why did only Homo Sapiens survive? - container

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