A letter to Layla : travels to our deep past and near future / Ramona Koval.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2020.Description: 292 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781922330222
- Koval, Ramona, 1954- -- Travel
- Koval, Ramona, 1954-
- Letters
- Human beings -- History
- Grandparent and child
- Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
- Grandparent and child
- Human beings
- Human ecology -- Forecasting
- Human evolution
- Letters
- Sociobiology
- Technological forecasting
- Travel
- Human evolution
- Human ecology -- Forecasting
- Sociobiology
- Technological forecasting
- Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
- 599.938 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 599.938 KOV | Available | 062544 |
Includes bibliographic references.
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an eminent paleo-archeologist in the Republic of Georgia, meets the next generation of robots in Berlin, attends a transhumanist conference in California, and explores a cave in southern France before talking with the world's leading authority on cave art. And throughout, she returns to her quick-witted, ever-engaging youngest granddaughter, Layla, whose development in infancy spurs Koval to find out what makes us human, what separates us from the other apes.