This sounds like a useful book. What worries me is how some can consider
themselves experts on all fields and not just their own. I am out of my
depth in all this as I am in most branches of science but I get concerned
with those who think that they can deal with everything. But then you know
what an expert is - x is the unknown and a spurt is a drip under pressure.
Hope it can be translated into americanese!
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Haas" <haas.john@comcast.net>
To: "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:55 PM
Subject: [asa] Review: The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest
Ancestors
> This is an excellent review of a well-written book on a subject of
> critical significance for the ASA.
> Jack Haas
>
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/54054;jsessionid=aaadvqJWCGk75L
> /
> The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors/. Ann
> Gibbons. xxvi + 306 pp. Doubleday, 2006. $26.
>
> Ever since a 1924 revelation first pointed to Africa as the cradle of
> humankind, a slow but steady stream of fossil discoveries has brought a
> general view of human evolution into focus. The pace has accelerated in
> the past 15 years, rapidly yielding an intriguing yet bewildering array
> of fossils of early ancestors of Homo sapiens. These new finds push
> back the base of our unique line, and that of our not-so-distant
> cousins, to possibly 6 or more million years ago. This time period is
> tantalizingly close to what most genetic models predict for the
> divergence of lineages that ultimately evolved into humans and
> chimpanzees. Finding a representative of the species that took the
> first step-on two legs-toward becoming human is indeed one of the
> key pursuits of paleoanthropology...more
>
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