The strange case of the rickety Cossack : and other cautionary tales from human evolution /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tattersall, Ian (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Paleoanthropology. Human evolution. Fossil hominids. Paleontology. Biological Evolution. Paleopathology. SCIENCE / Paleontology. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Online Access:	Cover image

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?