Between Ape and Human Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about halfapelike halfhumanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano Over the years he continued to record what locals had to say about these mystery hominoids while searching for ways to explain them as imaginary symbols of the wild or other cultural representations

In Between Ape and Human we follow Forth on the trail of this mystery hominoid and the space they occupy in islanders culture as both natural creatures and as supernatural beings In a narrative filled with adventure Lio culture and language zoology and natural history Forth comes to a startling and controversial conclusion

Unique important and thoughtprovoking this book will appeal to anyone interested in human evolution the survival of species including our own and how humans might relate to notquitehuman animals A mustlisten for all those interested in cryptozoology it is the only firsthand investigation by a leading anthropologist into the possible survival of a primitive species of human into recent timesand its coexistence with modern humans