******************Prehistoric Life******************

Africa / Cave-Paintings / Cavemen / Flint-Napping
Neanderthal / Australopithecus / Homo erectus

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****The Intimate Bond - Brian Fagan****

****Summary***

"Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible
mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans
have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire
civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our
fellow fauna. Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who
wandered into our prehistoric ancestor's camp and found companionship, to
empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys, camels. To the industrial age
when some animals became commodities, often brutally exploited, and others
became pets, nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes."

****HOMO BRITANNICUS - CHRIS STRINGER****

****THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HUMAN LIFE IN BRITAIN****

BACK PAGE: When did the first people arrive here? What did
they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals?
This is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first
footsteps through to the present day.

Chris Stringer takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived here
alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so
cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder
when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Here is the incredible
truth about our ancestors' journey over millennia - and a glimpse
of the future to see how it might continue.

'A beautiful book on a facinating subject, written by
the world authority' Richard Dawkins

'This important and eminently readable book pulls together all the
best scientific work on the first humans to inhabit Britain'
Tony Robinson

****The 10,000 Year Explosion****

****Ashkenazim Jews****

"The Question of whether the Ashkenazim (German Jews) are genetically distinct
is now settled: We know from the data that they are...//...Being measurably
different is not necessarily the same as being significantly different, and knowing
that systematic genetic differences exist does not automatically tell us what their
consequences are..."
"They've had a surprisingly large influence on the world over the past couple of
centuries and have played an outsized role in science, literature and Entertain-
ment...//...Hugely over-represented in jobs and accomplishments with the -
highest cognitive demands..."
"The ancient jewish population...were farmers (agriculturists) but by the tenth
century had given up agriculture and had developed unique occupational
patterns in mainly white collar jobs...//...Ashkenazim increasingly specialized
in one occupation,finance,...//...from roughly 800 to 1650 the great majority
(80%) had managerial and finance jobs (moneylenders) and were neither farmers
or craftsmen...//...they became tax-farmers,toll farmers and estate managers
...//....an ethnic group, one defined by occupation rather than location."

****The Wisdom of Birds - Tim Birkhead****

****Wisdom Of Birds****

"During the 1930s the study of imprinting (imprinting behaviourial habits and
knowledge onto the infant animals mind) was a major focus of the entire field
of animal behaviour. The broader issues, were instinct and intelligence and the
centuries-old question of man's place in nature. With none of the constraints
imposed by christianity, the ancient greeks saw animals and humans as part of
the same scheme, but the medieval church insisted that humans were both
distinct and superior. Beasts and flowers had been placed on Earth solely for
man's benefit to be used and abused with impunity."

****The AGE OF THE HORSE****

****Prehistoric Societies - Grahame Clark & Stuart Piggott****

****The Sea Inside - Philip Hoare****