Them and Us
- Authors
- Vendramini, Danny
- Publisher
- Kardoorair Press
- Tags
- evolutionary theory , emotions , physiology , homo erectus , evolution revolution , evolution of man , predation , evolution of the species , emotions for love , neanderthals , ecology , evolutionary exploration , human evolution , evolution of languages , anthropology , evolutionary psychology , anthropology of religion , evolution versus creation , evolutionism , evolutionary enlightenment , them and us , anthropology cannibalism coming of age ecology famine interdependence love war , evolutionary biology , cromagnons , evolution of religions , evolution theory , evolution and creation , evolutions , evolution of consciousness
- Date
- 2011-12-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.26 MB
- Lang
- en
Put aside everything you thought you knew about being human - about how we got here and what it all means. After five years of rigorous scientific research, Danny Vendramini has developed a theory of human origins that is stunning in its simplicity, yet breathtaking in its scope and importance.
Them and Us begins with a radical reassessment of Neanderthal behavioral ecology. He cites new archaeological and genetic evidence to show they weren't docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores - top flight predators of the stone age.
Neanderthal Predation (NP) theory reveals that Neanderthals were 'apex' predators - who resided at the top of the food chain, and everything else - including humans - was their prey.
NP theory is one of those groundbreaking ideas that revolutionizes scientific thinking. It represents a quantum leap in our understanding of human origins.
A leading authority on Eurasian Neanderthals, Professor John Shea from Stony Brook University in New York, said, “Vendramini presents a truly unique and innovative picture of the role of Neanderthal predation in human evolution. He pulls together countless different threads of scientific evidence to re-cast Neanderthals as ‘apex predators’, proverbial ‘wolves with knives’ who were effective rivals with our ancestors.. It has been a long time since I read a book about human evolution that I enjoyed so much.”
Professor Tony McMichael, from The Australian National University, said Vendramini’s Neanderthal predation theory “offers innovative insight into the many things about 'us' that we might otherwise take for granted.”
Harvard Archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of New England, Professor Iain Davidson, another advocate of Vendramini’s revolutionary theory adds: “Sometimes it takes an outsider to cut through the most intractable problems in science. That is what Vendramini's approach offers the reader in his daring claims about the interactions between humans and their most famous evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals.”
A major point of Vendramini's 2009 theory - that Eurasian Neanderthals abducted, raped and interbred with early humans in the Middle East was confirmed in 2010 by the publication of the 'Draft Sequence of the Neanderthal Genome' which showed that Neanderthals had interbred with early humans from the Middle East at precisely the time that Vendramini theorized.