Animal Ancestors

Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180670
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and Ancestors written by Brian Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity. Humans have always recognized both their kinship with animals and their fundamental differences, as animals have always been a threat to humans' well-being. The relationship, therefore, has been complex, intimate, reciprocal, personal, and -- crucially -- ambivalent. It is hardly surprising that animals evoke strong emotions in humans, both positive and negative. This companion volume to Morris' important earlier work, The Power of Animals, is a sustained investigation of the Malawi people's sacramental attitude to animals, particularly the role that animals play in life-cycle rituals, their relationship to the divinity and to spirits of the dead. How people relate to and use animals speaks volumes about their culture and beliefs. This book overturns the ingrained prejudice within much ethnographic work, which has often dismissed the pivotal role animals play in culture, and shows that personhood, religion, and a wide range of rituals are informed by, and even dependent upon, human-animal relations.

Author : Matthew Rake
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
ISBN 13 : 1512436097
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Ancestors of Modern Animals written by Matthew Rake and published by Hungry Tomato ®. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if elephants were as small as dogs? What if frogs were protected by armor? In prehistoric times, they were! In fact, other than a few unique changes, lots of prehistoric beasts looked similar to modern animals that live on Earth. Hedgehogs had long tails and no quills, some birds laid eggs the size of footballs, and dragonflies could eat reptiles and amphibians! If these extinct beasts came to life, they might look familiar—but you wouldn't want to get in their way! Read this book to learn more about the incredible and terrifying prehistoric ancestors of modern animals.

Author : Matthew Rake
Publisher : Hungry Tomato (R)
ISBN 13 : 1512406325
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Ancestors of Modern Animals written by Matthew Rake and published by Hungry Tomato (R). This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the megabeaver to the dwarf elephant, this book introduces readers to some prehistoric animals that might just be familiar."--

Author : William C. Young
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690379
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors written by William C. Young and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations – “totemism,” “emulation of predatory animals,” “ancestor eponymy,” “nicknaming,” and “Bedouin proximity to nature.” It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include “attached” elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting “attached” groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young’s argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship.

Author : Jay D. Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Within Us written by Jay D. Glass and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sports, religion, business, the war between the sexes, and emotions, the book presents in a reader-friendly manner a new way of understanding ourselves. Based upon the studies of people such as Jane Goodall, Dr. Glass shows us how we can understand our own thoughts and actions based upon the instinctual drives we have inherited from our animal ancestors. -- Amazon.

Author : Anthony Adolph
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473849225
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors written by Anthony Adolph and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top genealogist “shows how genetics helps and how it roots each of us in this magnificent story of Life on Earth in the most meaningful way imaginable.”—Reunite Magazine “What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race.”—Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863 How distantly are we related to dinosaurs? How much of your DNA came from Neanderthals? How are the builders of Stonehenge connected to great-grandpa? According to science, life first appeared on Earth about 3,500 million years ago. Every living thing is descended from that first spark, including all of us. But if we trace a direct line down from those original life forms to ourselves, what do we find? What is the full story of our family tree over the past 3,500 million years, and how are we able to trace ourselves so far back? From single-celled organisms to sea-dwelling vertebrates; amphibians to reptiles; tiny mammals to primitive man; the first Homo sapiens to the cave painters of Ice Age Europe and the first farmers down to the Norman Conquest, this book charts not only the extraordinary story of our ancient ancestors but also our 40,000-year-long quest to discover our roots, from ancient origin myths of world-shaping mammoths and great floods down to the scientific discovery of our descent from the Genetic Adam and the Mitochondrial Eve. “Having read it I’m still slightly shell-shocked by the range of topics that he covers, from the origins of the universe and life on Earth to the present-day DNA analysis that aims to answer some of our questions about our past. And everything in between!”—LostCousins

Author : Ronald A. Jenner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107105935
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology written by Ronald A. Jenner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the history and current practice of phylogenetics as a storytelling discipline that provides explanations for character evolution.

Author : Jon Hughes
Publisher : Collins Big Cat
ISBN 13 : 9780007475322
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Ancestors: Band 09/Gold written by Jon Hughes and published by Collins Big Cat. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors of everyday creatures, in this captivating information text, illustrated with realistic imagery from Jon Stuart.

Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183858
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and Ancestors written by Brian Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity. Humans have always recognized both their kinship with animals and their fundamental differences, as animals have always been a threat to humans' well-being. The relationship, therefore, has been complex, intimate, reciprocal, personal, and -- crucially -- ambivalent. It is hardly surprising that animals evoke strong emotions in humans, both positive and negative. This companion volume to Morris' important earlier work, The Power of Animals, is a sustained investigation of the Malawi people's sacramental attitude to animals, particularly the role that animals play in life-cycle rituals, their relationship to the divinity and to spirits of the dead. How people relate to and use animals speaks volumes about their culture and beliefs. This book overturns the ingrained prejudice within much ethnographic work, which has often dismissed the pivotal role animals play in culture, and shows that personhood, religion, and a wide range of rituals are informed by, and even dependent upon, human-animal relations.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618619160
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancestor's Tale written by Richard Dawkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.