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

Tattersall, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156027062 ISBN 13: 9780156027069

Publisher: Harcourt Brace International, 2003

Synopsis

The Monkey in the Mirror Guiding readers around the world and far into the past, Tattersall examines and explores evolutionary theory in eight brilliant and engaging essays. Full description

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Review:

PRAISE FOR BECOMING HUMAN
There is no more literate anthropologist writing on human evolution today than Ian Tattersall. . . . Becoming Human is at once absorbing in its details, provocative in its thoughtful speculations and delightfully informal in style."
-San Francisco Chronicle
Although many popular anthropological accounts of the human species have been written, few are as engaging as that of Ian Tattersall."-Natural History
Ian Tattersall combines his unique knowledge of the human fossil record, Paleolithic archaeology, primate behavior, prehistoric art . . . to offer a convincing scenario of how we have come to hold dominion over the earth."
-Donald Johanson, Scientific American

About the Author:

IAN TATTERSALL is curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, and the author of many books and articles. Becoming Human won the distinguished W.W. Howells Prize of the American Anthropological Association. An expert on both fossil humans and lemurs, Tattersall has done fieldwork in places as varied as Madagascar, Yemen, and Vietnam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0156027062
• ISBN 13: 9780156027069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240