from LisCarey

Where does our species come from? Who were our ancestors? These are enduring human questions, and we are piecing the answers together out of bits of bone and stone tools and recovered DNA. Chris Stringer is one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, and one of the leading proponents of the...

from Widsith

My mind finds it so hard to deal with the colossal timescales involved in palaeontology – even more so in the case of books like this, where the story being pieced together on this Brobdingnagian canvas is so crucial and so awe-inspiring. You're considering vast, Cthulhu-like stretches of time in...

from Kassilem

I'm not positive Stringer's idea is original. I'm positive I have heard the theory before. However, he presents it in a comprehensive way. And perhaps what I've heard did originally come from him and only now has it been written in a book. Either way, I like the theory. I like any theory that cha...

from LynleyS

Chris Stringer certainly knows his stuff. He almost knows too much, and it seemed he didn't quite know the right place to start with writing a book about everything he's learned over a career. Like many expert authors of non-fiction books, he first went into overview mode, including different was...

from JohnJohnsonII

Not as much new information as I had hoped.