THE FIGARO SELECTION – Bestiary of clouds, wonders of the starry sky, astonishing stories of evolution… We have chosen ten works to satisfy or stimulate your curiosity.
The original cave
The Tautavel cave houses the oldest human remains in the country. 450,000 years old, they tell of a time when our species did not yet exist. Co-written by paleoanthropologist Amélie Vialet and documentarian Emma Baus, Origins is a journey to the heart of prehistory. All aspects of the life of the first Europeans are addressed: their appearance, their physical and cognitive abilities, the climate in which they lived, but also… their cannibalism. Exciting !
François Bouchon / Le Figaro
Man and the climate
« Combining human history and natural history is a fundamental necessity if we are to correctly understand the world around us.” In an ambitious but accessible work, Peter Frankopan, historian and professor at the University of Oxford, explains how the history of humanity has been shaped by climate oscillations. It tells of societies and empires, great times and declines, but above all the permanent adaptation of man to…
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