Download or read book Humans in the Making written by Michel J. F. Dubois and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.