The Monkey in the Mirror : Essays on the Science of What Makes us Human

ISBN-13: 9780198515692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 203 str.

Ian Tattersall

Opis

Some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history are taken up in this collection of essays. Ian Tattersall stresses that living creatures, including humans, are not finely engineered organisms with every component perfectly adapted to their function. We are - on the contrary - jury-rigged, improvised beings, owing as much to chance as to adaptation. And this is true of all living creatures.

Recenzje

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!'

O autorze

Ian Tattersall is Curator of Human Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the author of many other books and articles, including two published by OUP in the UK - The Fossil Trail (1994) and Becoming Human (1998).