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020			_a9781137278890 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aGN281 _b.T374 2015
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100	1		_aTattersall, Ian _eauthor. _0(DLC)n 50000465
245	1	4	_aThe strange case of the rickety cossack : _band other cautionary tales from human evolution / _cIan Tattersall.
263			_a1506
264		1	_aNew York City : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2015.
264		1	_a[Place of publication not identified] : _b[Publisher not identified], _c2015.
300			_a244pages 24cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
380			_aBook _2tlcgt
385			_aGeneral _2tlctarget
520			_a"In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career--from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman--Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus. The book's title refers to the 1856 discovery of a clearly very old skull cap in Germany's Neander Valley. The possessor had a brain as large as a modern human, but a heavy low braincase with a prominent brow ridge. Scientists tried hard to explain away the inconvenient possibility that this was not actually our direct relative. One extreme interpretation suggested that the preserved leg bones were curved by both rickets, and by a life on horseback. The pain of the unfortunate individual's affliction had caused him to chronically furrow his brow in agony, leading to the excessive development of bone above the eye sockets. The subsequent history of human evolutionary studies is full of similarly fanciful interpretations. With tact and humor, Tattersall concludes that we are not the perfected products of natural processes, but instead the result of substantial doses of random happenstance"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPaleoanthropology. _0(DLC)sh2001004516
650		0	_aHuman evolution. _0(DLC)sh 85062868
650		0	_aFossil hominids. _0(DLC)sh 85051024
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Paleontology. _2bisacsh _0(local)tlcaut1028851582910000
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. _2bisacsh _0(local)tlcaut1026723655011200
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/890/9781137278890/image/lgcover.9781137278890.jpg
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