This book highlights the crucial role that European ancestors played in human development and focuses on key stages of human progress, technological and social. Especially in the last 50,000 years, Europeans pioneered far-reaching changes in the way peoples around the world lived, which even affected their physical appearance. Europeans in particular had a hard time surviving, but it was overcoming these great challenges that set them apart.
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Neil Harrison is a physicist and engineer who helped develop intelligent communication systems for customers on four continents. An essential skill in this work was to identify conflicts in highly complex systems and to predict the occurrence of potential problems. He applies this mind set to wide-ranging interests which include the fields of pre-history and history. Studying anthropology in the 1990s, he soon noted discrepancies in the literature that evolved into the themes he addresses in this book.
He now enjoys life perched high in the Alps with a sweeping view over vineyards and glaciers. He has written other books on history and culture and is currently working on more.