Theresa’s Reviews > Journey to Civilization The Science of how we got here > Status Update

looking at migration of people through out the land mass, the author does a great job showing the controversy and the convulsions of how many theories have not been proven

I am astonished by the currency of the information it the book, research findings are supported and elaborated with current evidence and theory...

only critism comes in part to not using the technology to make links define terms allowing for a younger reading audience

the wikimedia sources are great illustrations

the controversy discussed back and forth between climate change and extinction is handled superbly explaining the problem and current findings that have changed and solidified theory.

The authors quick review of paleo-anthropology was awesome. I loved the contributions of personal history and the descriptions of the finds, although its a brief part of the whole story his wording and technique make it to become the most remarkable part of the book...

The book begins the explanation of tree of life with a warning that from that point on the book will become controversial that the ideas will conflict with how man first believed they were created by a supreme being. I think the author did an outstanding job of acknowledging the controversy in simple and polite terms.

looking into the development of life from the beginning if bacteria, flora and funa, going into the branches of the tree of life is spectacularly explained.

Looking at the theories and ideas of the formation of life in day 3, how progress from amino acids and dna, rna development create problems with finding definitive evidence of how life progressed.

looking at the first day and the formation of the galaxy universe and all things. love the reference to time being three days although all human history is in the last seconds similar to cosmos's year of creation where its the last 14 seconds for all of humanity...