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The Monkey in the Mirror : Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human Paperback - 2003
by Ian Tattersall
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Guiding readers around the world and far into the past, Tattersall examines and explores evolutionary theory in eight brilliant and engaging essays.
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- Title The Monkey in the Mirror : Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
- Author Ian Tattersall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156027062I5N00
- ISBN 9780156027069 / 0156027062
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024122
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.938
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Summary
Ian Tattersall is widely regarded as one of the rare eminent scientists who is also a graceful and engaging writer. In this extraordinary new work he attempts to answer the most controversial questions on human origins: What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? Guiding readers around the world and far into the past, Tattersall examines and explores evolutionary theory, a science based not on a finite set of conclusions drawn from overwhelming evidence, but rather our evolving effort to make sense out of a handful of incomplete fossil remains.
Brimming with delightful stories and scientific wisdom, this exquisite book offers fresh insight into the fundamental questions of our origins--and our evolutionary future.
Brimming with delightful stories and scientific wisdom, this exquisite book offers fresh insight into the fundamental questions of our origins--and our evolutionary future.
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Just south of Tanzania's border with Kenya, the teeming Serengeti Plains are sundered by a giant thirty-mile-long and three-hundred-feet-deep gash.