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

Tattersall, Ian

 
9780198515692: The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes us Human
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198515693 ISBN 13 : 9780198515692
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Widely regarded as one of the rare eminent scientists who is also a graceful writer, Ian Tattersall here takes up some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history in this superb collection of essays. 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. Leading the reader around the world and into the far reaches of the past, Tattersall shows us what the science of human evolution is about and what it is up against - from the sparsity of evidence to the pressures of religious fundamentalism.

The fundamental questions of our origins - and our evolutionary future - find new life in this extraordinary book, full of delightful stories, scientific wisdom, and fresh insight

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198515693
ISBN 13 
9780198515692
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
220
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