Author : Ian Tattersall
Release : 1995
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 818/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fossil Trail by : Ian Tattersall
Download or read book The Fossil Trail written by Ian Tattersall. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.