Masters of the Planet : The Search for Our Human Origins

from Sovranty

This book works like an executive summary for the discoveries in human evolution to present. It includes locations, dates, mistake corrections, scientific community concurrences and disagreements, and continued mysteries. The author's expertise and knowledge in the field of human evolutionary stu...

from neurodrew

Subtitled “The search for our human origins” About 50,000 years ago there were several hominid species, mostly in Africa. The homo sapiens genus dominated and the other species became extinct. Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersal surveys the known fossil records, starting earlier with the australopi...

from JeffV

Masters of the Planet attempts to determine at what point in history traits that would come to define homo sapiens appeared and developed. With a fossil record not nearly as complete as we'd like it to be as well as clues in geographically distant locations but far apart chronologically, there is...

from rossbm

First of all, Thanks to Ian Tattersall for the first-reads book! This book was very informative. There was a lot of real information and speculation. It was easy to follow and gave me a better understanding of the evolution of our species. A definite must-read for anyone who wants to know about t...

from Jaylia3

This sometimes surprising, always fascinating book on the history of human species examines the fossil record to explain what we know about the developmental path from the earliest ape-like hominids to the prehistory of our own Homo sapiens ancestors. For most of human existence several species c...