The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

by Henry Gee

Book Overview

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human." In The Accidental Species...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226284883
• ISBN13: 9780226284880
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"