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Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter radically restructured the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa. Symbolic communication transformed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural process. The invention of agriculture revolutionized the relationship between humanity and the environment, and the technologies of interaction led to the birth of civilization. Precision machinery spawned the industrial revolution and the rise of nation-states; and in the next metamorphosis, digital technologies may well unite all of humanity for the benefit of future generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSynthesizing the findings of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the modern narrative of human evolution that began with the discovery of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. 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Wie kam es, dass wir wurden, der wir sind? Wie fanden wir zum aufrechten Gang? Wieso wurden wir nackt? Wie entwickelte sich unsere Sexualit t in diesen erstaunlichen Zeitspannen? Und wie entstand das Prinzip der Familie? Wie das der Kultur? Welche gro en Technologien, die unsere Vorfahren entwickelten und langfristig nutzten, pr gten die weitere Entfaltung des Menschen und bestimmen heute unsere zuk nftige Morgend mmerung? Der Anthropologe Richard L. Currier zeigt anschaulich und im gro en Stil des brillanten Erz hlers, wie uns im Laufe der Jahrmillionen immer wieder Technologien zuteil wurden, die wiederum dabei unterst tzten, uns in Ern hrung, Sprache, Kunst und Gemeinschaft zu dem zu entwickeln, der wir heute sind. Wie wir also zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen heranreiften, die nun erstmals -- als Menschheitsfamilie wahrgenommen -- vor wirklich globalen Herausforderungen stehen -- und dass wir sie meistern k nnen. 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