Urban Design Made by Humans offers a robust, annotated glossary of terms and concepts essential to urban design. Rarely does one find a book that brings together so many basic ideas, with clear, crisp explanations, and highly legible illustrations. It brings depth and perspective to technical knowledge in an approachable format. This book will be a valuable resource for a range of designers, from beginning urban design students, to design faculty, to seasoned professionals." Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of we -- from the local to the global.” ~ Olafur Eliasson With respect to our origin and the desire to keep moving forward and build on the dream that sparked Made By Humans in the first place, we are more than a home décor or gift shop. Burials were infrequent and very simple prior to 40,000 years ago and then began to become more elaborate with the inclusion of valued objects such as tools and body adornments. Red ochre was sprinkled over many of the bodies prior to burial. Homo sapiens living today have an average brain size of about 1350 cubic centimetres which makes-up 2.2% of our body weight. Early Homo sapiens, however, had slightly larger brains at nearly 1500 cubic centimetres.

In the form of a glossary of urban design key concepts, cleverly cross-referenced, Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright’s Urban design made by humans is an important contribution to structure a common language of our field, accessible to everyone involved in the daily construction of this magnificent artefact called city. This is a much-needed tool in the era of collaboration and interoperability."As geneticists recover ancient genomes from different extinct hominin species, they are generating insights that are not possible from comparing the anatomy of the fossils alone. I am certainly not in favour of censorship and I think it’s wonderful that artists and comedians have the freedom to express themselves - but there are certain sensitives broadcasters need to be aware of.” The discovery of some distinctive modern human DNA within the DNA recovered from a Neanderthal fossil suggests that modest interbreeding was occurring between Neanderthals and modern humans in Central Asia by 100,000 years ago.

A number of further migrations out of Africa probably occurred after the initial Homo ergaster migration, one of which, Homo heidelbergensis, is considered by many palaeoanthropologists to be the ancestor of both Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis) and modern humans ( Homo sapiens).Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Professor of City Design, University of Illinois Chicago and author of City Planning in India: 1947-2017 and One Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India Sometime before 4 million years ago we see the first evidence of the genus Australopithecus. These fossils sample the kind of creature that was most likely the ancestor to the genus Homo. When did Homo erectus become extinct, and was there genetic exchange between erectus, sapiens and perhaps other hominin species?

Even though thousands of hominin fossils have now been recovered and described there is still much work to be done. Our centre of mass is right over our hips, so the weight goes right down through our legs and to our knees. Our knees are built for having weight loaded straight down." Unfortunately, most jump in without first asking why, how or what they are seeking to change. Asking the right question at the right time is critical to succeed at innovation adoption. We live in a world where real human beings make things. We also live in a world where things that once were only created byhumans, can now be done by a machine. To learn the recipe for innovation, you must be ready and willing to engage and practise with diverse techniques, based on your “innovation” output (e.g. product, process, culture, etc.).Once we get to the origins of our own species Homo sapiens we have the added advantage that we are able to now use next generation sequencing methods to recover ancient DNA (aDNA). Around 2.5 million years ago we see the first fossil evidence of species in Africa that many argue belong to our own lineage. One of these, Homo habilis, almost certainly made stone tools, had a slightly larger brain than Australopithecus, stood upright and regularly walked on two legs. limb bones are thinner and less robust than earlier human species and indicate a reduction in muscle size from earlier humans. Politicians also criticised the show with Culture, Media and Sport select Committee MP Giles Watling saying: “Something like this should have come with a health warning so that people are aware it is not factual and can make a choice on whether to watch it or not.