The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Ennos Roland
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Ennos Roland A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood…
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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Ennos Roland
A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires--in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari's Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky's Salt.As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world?
"A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years" (Nature) The Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood.
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