Jaeseung Jeong's Human Exploration Report 3: Run, Homo Erectus!

Description

History is a very scientific subject.
I hope even children who love history can enjoy it!

If 《Human Exploration Report》 was a book that children who like brain science and science could read with immersion, I would like to introduce that 《Human Exploration Report》 is a book that even children who enjoy history can enjoy as it adds history.
History is a humanities field and may seem quite distant from science, but in fact, history is a very scientific discipline. In order to know how our ancestors lived, we have to imagine and draw it in our heads through small sources or clues, so a scientific approach is necessary for it to be plausible. Therefore, biological anthropology can be said to be the essence of science more than any other discipline. We created this series with the hope that you would experience the essence of science.
The human ancestors that appear and are depicted here are not the absolute truth, the truth. Just as we speculate that “humanity must have lived like this” based on small clues such as the remaining bone fragments, the shape of the skull, and the ruins and relics they left behind, this book also shows how today's forensic science teams can identify the criminal based only on clues from the crime scene. I used a configuration that was similar to tracking. In that respect, I wish you all could become anthropological detectives and picture your ancestors in the past like this.

How we humans achieved today's great civilized society,
To understand what makes us different from other apes,
An approach to biological anthropology is needed.

Why should we introduce not only brain science to children, but also a discipline called biological anthropology, which seems difficult just by hearing about it? If we study what scientists have recently discovered that differentiates us from other apes, we will discover something surprising about humans.
Very young great apes, such as orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, are not much different from humans aged around two or three. Scientists have discovered that they are highly developed intellectually and engage in many intelligent behaviors just as much as we do. But how can we form such a huge intellectual civilization and live in a complex modern society, and why do they still remain in a primitive state? Also, why did beings like Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis not survive until now and have all gone extinct?
In order to find such clues, we had to find out what was different about the brains of Homo sapiens from the great apes of the past and from other extinct hominins. So I looked into it and found that the size of the brain was not important. It wasn't about bigger skulls or brain capacity that mattered. It turns out that cooperating by helping each other, learning socially, teaching what I know to my friends, and learning from my friends what I don't know, was very important in helping weak humans create this great civilization.
What would it be like to see these things through the eyes of an alien? How would it feel to see with the eyes of an alien how our ancestors developed this ability little by little to create the society we have today? To find answers to these questions together, let's take a trip to Earth's past in a time machine that can transcend time. I came here with a new story and the study of biological anthropology in the hope that the wariness and conflict between aliens and human ancestors would serve as an opportunity for children to understand our ancestors.

Publisher's book introduction

Our second story with brain scientist Professor Jaeseung Jeong.
This time it’s biological anthropology!

The second story, following Professor Jeong Jae-seung's first series, "Jeong Jae-seung's Human Research Report," which showed the study of brain science from a children's perspective, is a biological anthropology that deals with the evolution of humanity.
If 〈Human Exploration Report〉 attempted to observe our current state in an unfamiliar way from the perspective of brain science and psychology in order to understand our current state, this time, not numerous other apes, but only hominins, and especially Homo sapiens. Let's look again at the background of today's advanced civilization from an alien's perspective.

The most striking characteristic that represents the ancestors of today's humans began with walking on two feet, not a large brain. From Sahelanthropus tchadensis 700 million years ago, which is believed to have been the first to walk on two feet, to Australopithecus afarensis, famous for its name 'Lucy', to Homo habilis, which walked on two feet and was able to use both hands freely, and was good at running. Homo erectus, which had a larger brain and larger physique than Homo sapiens, and Homo neanderthalensis, which survived to the end and became what we are today. Through the various relics left behind by various types of hominins that have evolved over 700 million years, we can learn what kind of bodies and behavioral patterns hominins developed at each stage of evolution, how civilization developed in the process, and why Homo The story uses historical and scientific facts and fantasy imagination to tell the story of how Sapiens is the only species that has survived to this day and has become a highly advanced civilization.

If you were to take a time machine and go into the lives of mankind long ago, what would you encounter?
When an alien life form met an unfamiliar human ancestor, and when the infinitely weak ancestors of mankind met an alien life form, what kind of situation did they create? Let's meet our past in the twists and turns created by the encounter between humanity and aliens, which are so unfamiliar to us!

summary

Lacetti and his group travel to Earth 150 million years ago in a time machine. This Earth is in the middle of winter with a blizzard. Is there really life on this cold Earth? Doubts are short-lived, and a new two-legged creature appears in front of the exploration team. As the exploration team spends their days together, they begin to discover unique features of life on Earth that they have never seen before... … .
Volume 3 introduces Homo erectus, a hominin that resembles Homo sapiens much more than before, not only in appearance but also in body and language. In particular, through the story of the Peking Man who lived in Zhoukoudian, China, we can get a glimpse of the new aspects of hominins that communicated verbally like modern humans, helped their colleagues give birth, and ran straight across the snowy fields on their long legs.
An exploration of Earth history by the past Aure Expedition that never stops even in the cold wind blowing or the darkness in the cave!