Fossil Trail, The - How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (Historical Books (Oxford University Press))

Ian Tattersall

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1999

0195061012 / 9780195061017

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Oxford University Press Historical Books (Oxford University Press) Fossil Trail, The - How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (NM) (dust jacket VG+) Manufacturer: Oxford University Press Product Line: Historical Books (Oxford University Press) Type: Hardcover Copyright Date: 1995 Author: Ian Tattersall Page Count: 276 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is NM - dust jacket VG+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: In The Fossil Trail, Ian Tattersall, the head of the Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us on a sweeping tour of the study of human evolution, offering a colorful history of fossil discoveries and a revealing insider's look at how these finds have been interpreted--and misinterpreted--through time. All the major figures and discoveries are here. We meet Lamarck and Cuvier and Darwin (we learn that Darwin's theory of evolution, though a bombshell, was very congenial to a Victorian ethos of progress), right up to modern theorists such as Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Tattersall describes Dubois's work in Java, the many discoveries in South Africa by pioneers such as Raymond Dart and Robert Broom, Louis and Mary Leakey's work at Olduvai Gorge, Don Johanson's famous discovery of "Lucy" (a 3.4 million-year-old female hominid, some 40% complete), and the more recent discovery of the "Turkana Boy," even more complete than "Lucy," and remarkably similar to modern human skeletons. He discusses the many techniques available to analyze finds, from fluorine analysis (developed in the 1950s, it exposed Piltdown as a hoax) and radiocarbon dating to such modern techniques as electron spin resonance and the analysis of human mitochondrial DNA. He gives us a succinct picture of what we presently think our "family tree" looks like, with at least three genera and perhaps a dozen species through time (though he warns that this greatly underestimates the actual diversity of hominids over the past two million or so years). And he paints a vivid, insider's portrait of paleoanthropology, the dogged work in the broiling sun, searching for a tooth, or a fractured corner of bone, amid stone litter and shadows, with no guarantee of ever finding anything. And perhaps most important, Tattersall looks at all these great researchers and discoveries within the context of their social and scientific milieu, to reveal the insidious ways that the received wisdom can shape how we interpret fossil findings, that what we expect to find colors our understanding of what we do find.

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Titolo
Fossil Trail, The - How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (Historical Books (Oxford University Press))
Autore
Ian Tattersall
Editore
Oxford University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
1999
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0195061012
ISBN 13
9780195061017

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