The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human - Hardcover

Tattersall, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151005206 ISBN 13: 9780151005208

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

Filled with entertaining stories and scientific insight, a humorous and relevatory collection of essays takes readers around the world and transports them back in time, revealing what the science of human evolution is up against. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

A touchstone for any reader intent on a brief guided tour of the contemporary discipline ... There is much in this brief book that inspires reflection ... written with such facility and in such fluent prose ... any reader who is prepared to devote time and thought to this brief book will be abundantly rewarded. (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews)

Concise but penetrating book. (Good Book Guide)

This exceptional collection of essays, by one of the foremost anthropologists in the world, provides unparalleled insight into how we became human - a must read!' (Donald Johanon, author of Lucy)

About the Author:

Ian Tattersall is curator of Human Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History and the author of eleven books and many articles. Becoming Human won the distinguished W. W. Howells Prize of the American Anthropological Association. Tattersall lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0151005206
• ISBN 13: 9780151005208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203