Tattersall, Ian
Summary: Argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career-- from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman-- Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 TATHare, Brian
Summary: "For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 HARPyne, Lydia V.
Summary: "A science historian describes seven famous ancestral fossils that have become known around the world, including the three-foot tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba and Lucy,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016