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

Tattersall, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151005206 ISBN 13: 9780151005208

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins,
and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall.

What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination. Ian Tattersall, one of those rare scientists who is also a graceful writer, addresses them in this delightful book.

Writing in an informal essay style, Tattersall leads the reader around the world and into the far reaches of the past, showing what the science of human evolution is up against-from the sparsity of evidence to the pressures of religious fundamentalism. Looking with dispassion and humor at our origins, Tattersall offers a wholly new definition of what it is to be human.

Delightful stories, scientific wisdom, fresh insight-the perfect science book.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151005206
• ISBN 13: 9780151005208
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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