by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788436806564
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«Hijos del hielo: clima y orígenes del hombre» is the historical essay by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, published by Pirámide in paperback (215 pages).
The essay explores the influence of climate on human evolution and analyzes how glaciations and other environmental changes shaped the history of the species. Throughout the journey, it shows the adaptation strategies of human beings in the face of these climatic challenges and their role in the origin of man.
Published in 1992, the work is a translation of «Children of the ice»; it belongs to the Ciencia Hoy collection, with translation by Manuel Martínez Luque-Romero, and includes bibliography and index.
John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around."
