Re: [asa] Review: The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

My brother's (a pathologist's) definition of "expert" is "someone from out
of town with slides." I suppose that should be updated to "with
powerpoint."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Jack Haas" <haas.john@comcast.net>; "ASA list" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Review: The First Human: The Race to Discover Our
Earliest Ancestors

> 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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