Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future

Koval, Ramona
Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future

Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future

Koval, Ramona

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  • Shortlist, 2021 Nib Literary Award

How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?

Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an eminent paleo-archaeologist in the Republic of Georgia, meets the next generation of robots in Berlin, attends a transhumanist conference in California, and explores a cave in southern France before talking with the world’s leading authority on cave art.

And throughout, she returns to her quick-witted, ever-engaging youngest granddaughter, Layla, whose development in infancy spurs Koval to find out what makes us human, what separates us from the other apes.

Filled with insightful and unexpected discussions with scientists whose knowledge of the past could hold the key to our future, A Letter to Layla will surprise and delight in equal measure.

Author:   Koval, Ramona
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922330222


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 September 2020
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How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?

Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an eminent paleo-archaeologist in the Republic of Georgia, meets the next generation of robots in Berlin, attends a transhumanist conference in California, and explores a cave in southern France before talking with the world’s leading authority on cave art.

And throughout, she returns to her quick-witted, ever-engaging youngest granddaughter, Layla, whose development in infancy spurs Koval to find out what makes us human, what separates us from the other apes.

Filled with insightful and unexpected discussions with scientists whose knowledge of the past could hold the key to our future, A Letter to Layla will surprise and delight in equal measure.

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Author:   Koval, Ramona
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922330222


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 September 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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