The Neanderthals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal - Brossura

Trinkaus, Erik; Shipman, Pat

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ISBN 10: 0679732993 ISBN 13: 9780679732990

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1994

Riassunto

Traces the history of the study of the Neanderthal, explains how they were discovered, and surveys current views on where they fit into the evolutionary scheme

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Recensione:

"A remarkable account of humankind, both ancient and modern, told with clarity, precision, and the narrative pull of a good novel." -- Jean Auel, Washington Post Book World
"Sketching in the lives of hundred of scientists and their discoveries, conclusions, blunders, and foibles...The Neandertals could stand as a textbook for a course in the history of science...Gripping." -- The New York Times Book Review

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eenth-century scholar, their fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them irrevocably apart from human beings. Some commentators accused them of cannibalism. Yet by the 1970s the Neandertals were being hailed as "the first flower people" and praised for their apparent compassion and religious piety.

The story of how scientists could come to such divergent conclusions about a set of bones unearthed in Germany in 1856 unfolds with irresistible detail in this enthralling book. Even as The Neandertals assesses the identity, kinship, and character of our possible ancestors, it casts a wry eye on the modern Homo sapiens who have embraced or disavowed them and illuminates the peculiar way in which even science is shaped by human needs and biases.

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679732993
• ISBN 13: 9780679732990
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 454