by Claude-Louis Gallien · Presses Universitaires de France - PUF · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782130521969
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«Homo: histoire plurielle d'un genre très singulier» is Claude-Louis Gallien's essay on human evolution, in paperback (480 pages, French).
The essay starts from creation myths of different cultures to trace the evolutionary history of the human being: from great apes and Australopithecus to Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, with attention to brain evolution, dating techniques and the human capacity to record and transmit knowledge.
It is part of the Quadrige collection from PUF and the edition includes a foreword by Yves Coppens; it was published in February 2002.
A work of scientific popularization for readers interested in human evolution, prehistory and the origins of man.
