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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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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.
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