Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human - Softcover

Lewin, Roger; E. Leakey, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349103453 ISBN 13: 9780349103457

Publisher: Abacus, 1993

Synopsis

Richard Leakey questions the widely accepted idea of a 2 million-year-old ancestry of hunters and gatherers - the men hunting, the women raising children - that is the basis of modern man's nuclear family, and asks why the first signs of humanity occurred a mere 15,000 years ago in the cave paintings of Lascaux. What was going on in the minds of men before that first recorded expression of art and humanity occurred? Richard Leakey also wrote People of the Lake and The Making of Mankind . Roger Lewin is also the author of the prize-winning Bones of Contention.

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Review:

An epic tale (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Fascinating (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Anyone with curiosity will find a reason to read Origins Reconsidered: it is a superb account of the state of knowledge concerning the evolution of our species . . .Richard Leakey sees the wood and not just the trees (NEW SCIENTIST)

Book Description:

Leakey and Lewin's classic book about human origins and evolutions, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus science great

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0349103453
• ISBN 13: 9780349103457
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400