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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: strange case of the rickety Cossack
    sub title: and other cautionary tales from human evolution
  name:
    name part: Tattersall, Ian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 244 pages : black and white illlustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: "In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall 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 dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus. With tact and humor, Tattersall concludes that we are not the perfected products of natural processes, but instead the result of substantial doses of random happenstance"--
  table of contents: Lemurs and the delights of fieldwork -- Humankind's place in nature -- People get a fossil record -- Neanderthals and man-apes -- The synthesis and Handy Man -- Evolutionary refinements -- The gilded age -- Meanwhile, back at the museum ... -- Turkana, the Afar, and Dmanisi -- Molecules and midgets -- Neanderthals, DNA, and creativity -- Why does it matter how we evolved?
  target audience: adult
  note: Ian Tattersall.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Paleoanthropology
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Fossil hominids
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Biological Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Paleopathology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Fossil hominids
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Paleoanthropology
  classification: GN281 .T374 2015
  classification: 599.93/8
  classification: SCI054000 SCI027000
  identifier: 9781137278890
  identifier: 1137278897
  identifier: 2014038032
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150205
    record change date: 20150806152335.0
    record identifier: in00003528200
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng