![]() ![]() As it is, I really enjoyed learning more both about this scientific discipline and what it might be teaching us about our deep, deep past as a species.įossil Men focuses mainly on the Middle Awash team of paleoanthropologists and related people-so named for the region of Ethiopia in which this team found the first fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus. While still comprehensible to laypeople like myself, the more you know about theories of evolution, paleoanthropology, etc., then the more enticing this book will be for you. Kermit Pattison, while not himself a scientist, has spent so many years on his research for this subject that he ends up presenting a text that goes far deeper than most popular accounts. Indeed, I wouldn’t describe this as a “pop science” book, which is usually the type of scientific non-fiction I read. ![]() Fossil Men is a book about science and history-both subjects I adore in my non-fiction reading-in a somewhat niche subject of paleoanthropology. ![]() This is one of those books where I don’t remember how it came to be on my to-read list, but I’m glad it did. ![]()
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