{"id":1285,"date":"2022-06-03T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2022-06-02T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:55:43","slug":"how-to-build-a-human-in-seven-evolutionary-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/how-to-build-a-human-in-seven-evolutionary-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps<\/em>
\nby Pamela S. Turner (Author) and John Gurche (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> The epic story of human evolution in seven big steps! Find out how, when, and why did we:<\/p>\n

1. stand up,
\n2. smash rocks,
\n3. get swelled heads,
\n4. take a hike,
\n5. invent barbecue,
\n6. start talking (and never shut up), and
\n7. become storytellers? <\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong>
\nA NOTE ON RACE<\/strong>
\nThe modern concept of race is relatively recent. It is tied to efforts by early European scientists and naturalists to arrange life on a religiously inspired ladder with a Christian God at the top, followed by angels, then white people, with other races just a step above monkeys and apes. These racial concepts were closely tied to a wave of European colonialism that began in the sixteenth century. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2022 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps by Pamela S. Turner (Author) and John Gurche (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: The epic story of human evolution in seven big steps! Find out how, when, and why did we: 1. stand up, 2. smash rocks, 3. get swelled heads, 4. take … <\/p>\n

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