Summary of Angela Saini's Superior

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The rock art at Mulka’s Cave is unique in the region for being so densely packed with images. It is difficult to date, but it is believed that the cave was created by indigenous Australians around 60,000 years ago.
#2 The world is not what it seems. It’s a home that is more lived in than any other that I can imagine. Countless generations have absorbed and built upon knowledge of food sources and navigation.
#3 Modern humans, according to the out of Africa hypothesis, evolved from a population of people in Africa around 100,000 years ago. They began migrating to the rest of the world around 100,000 years ago and then began adapting in small ways to their own particular environmental conditions.
#4 The first Europeans to arrive in Australia were amazed by its original inhabitants, the Aboriginals, who had no agriculture or houses. They were considered to be primitive, a fossilized stage in human evolution, and their days were numbered.

Sujets

• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Anthropology
• Social
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669399919
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Angela Saini's Superior
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The rock art at Mulka’s Cave is unique in the region for being so densely packed with images. It is difficult to date, but it is believed that the cave was created by indigenous Australians around 60,000 years ago.

#2

The world is not what it seems. It’s a home that is more lived in than any other that I can imagine. Countless generations have absorbed and built upon knowledge of food sources and navigation.

#3

Modern humans, according to the out of Africa hypothesis, evolved from a population of people in Africa around 100,000 years ago. They began migrating to the rest of the world around 100,000 years ago and then began adapting in small ways to their own particular environmental conditions.

#4

The first Europeans to arrive in Australia were amazed by its original inhabitants, the Aboriginals, who had no agriculture or houses. They were considered to be primitive, a fossilized stage in human evolution, and their days were numbered.

#5

Indigenous Australians had a deep understanding of their land and the environment, which was largely ignored by the colonizers.

#6

The Australian government began taking children from their parents in the 1930s, as they considered the indelibly scarred Stolen Generations to be mentally unsuited to any other kind of work.

#7

Gail is a sixty-year-old woman who was raised to believe she was Italian. But when she learned about her family’s past, she gained a new identity and has spent the past six years absorbing her family’s culture.

#8

The idea of human unity was reinforced during the Enlightenment, when European thinkers defined what a modern human was. However, many of them didn’t know how most of humanity lived or what it looked like, so they assumed other cultures didn’t meet their standards.

#9

Modern science, in its search for human origins, has written the essence of humanity in its own image, and has measured other people by how far they have come in living up to it.

#10

European thinkers began to wonder whether humankind actually shared the same species. Scientists began to wonder whether we all belonged to the same species.

#11

The first humans to arrive in Europe only had representational art 45,000 years ago, but when researchers excavated far earlier sites in Africa, they didn’t always find the same evidence of representational art. So they decided that although they looked like modern humans, they weren’t behaviorally modern yet.

#12

We are constantly chasing our origins. When we can’t find what we want in the present, we go back and explore our past, until we find what we’re looking for.

#13

The multiregional hypothesis states that Homo sapiens evolved not only in Africa, but that some of the earlier ancestors of our species spread out of Africa and then independently evolved into modern humans, before mixing and interbreeding with other human groups to create the one single species we recognize today.

#14

Some people, however, still refuse to accept that humans evolved in Africa. They believe that races are real, and that people who have come from a particular area have always been there.

#15

The latest discoveries about our ancestors show that we are all different, and not just physically but also genetically. This might be racialized.

#16

For more than a century, the word Neanderthal had been synonymous with low intelligence. But in the space of a decade, once the genetic link to modern Europeans was suspected, that all changed.

#17

The more I learn about our past, the more I realize that there is still not enough evidence to prove that any humans became modern outside of Africa. The classic multiregional theory states that humans evolved from a single lineage that can be traced to a single small sub-Saharan African population, but perhaps our ancestors were the product of many populations across a far wider area within Africa.

#18

The idea of universal humanity is being challenged by new scientific findings. If our origins aren’t clear, how do we know we’re all the same.

#19

The political tentacles of race reach into our minds and demand proof.