Understanding human evolution / Ian Tattersall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tattersall, Ian, author.

Series:

Understanding life series

Understanding life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies currently used to unravel the evolutionary past and emergence of Homo sapiens. By separating the history of palaeoanthropology from current interpretation of the human fossil record, it lays numerous misconceptions to rest, and demonstrates that human evolution has been far from the linear struggle from primitiveness to perfection that we've been led to believe. It also presents a coherent scenario for how Homo sapiens contrived to cross a formidable cognitive barrier to become an extraordinary and unprecedented thinking creature. Elegantly illustrated, Understanding Human Evolution is for anyone interested in the complex and tangled story of how we came to be.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jul 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009106177 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.