by Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez · Temas de Hoy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484601104
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«La especie elegida» is the popular science essay on human evolution by Juan Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martínez, published by Temas de Hoy in paperback.
The essay draws on the fossil record and the Atapuerca sites to reconstruct human evolution, asking whether humans are the inevitable result of that process or an accident. Along the way it covers bipedalism, brain growth, the social life of hominids, and the emergence of language.
Subtitle: «La larga marcha de la evolución humana». Published in 2001 in Spanish, with 344 pages and illustrations by Mauricio Antón; the authors are part of the Atapuerca Project.
Suitable reading for enthusiasts of paleontology, anthropology, and scientific popularization about human origins.
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras is a Spanish paleoanthropologist and author known for his work in the Atapuerca Archaeological Site.
