Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution, Second Edition

by Peter J. Wilson

Book Overview

In spite of recent advances in the study of evolution, scholars have shied away from the most intriguing problem of all--how and why animal nature became human nature. In confronting this problem, Peter Wilson leads his readers on a fascinating exploration. What made it possible, he asks, for one genus of the order Primates, living in Africa in the Plio-Pleistocene era, to become human and to develop culture? Continuing the tradition of bold speculation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300029888
• ISBN13: 9780300029888
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"