The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human

This book provides an absorbing look at how our species evolved, from the curator of human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History.

With dispassion and humor, Tattersall leads the reader around the world and into the far reaches of the past, showing what the science of human evolution is up against - from the sparsity of evidence to the pressures of religious fundamentalism.

The book offers a wholly new definition of what it is to be human.

Unparalleled insight.