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The Accidental Species
Henry Gee
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Description for The Accidental Species
Hardcover. Presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Human exceptionalism, this book argues, is an error that can infect scientific thought. It aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what's missing, but how we're linked. Editor(s): Gee, Henry. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
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, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to ... Read more
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, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226284880
SKU
V9780226284880
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About Henry Gee
Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of such books as Jacob's Ladder, In Search of Deep Time, The Science of Middle-Earth, and A Field Guide to Dinosaurs, the last with Luis V. Rey.
Reviews for The Accidental Species
"With a delightfully irascible sense of humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin and all the misunderstanding that we impose on it. The Accidental Species is an excellent primer on how-and how not-to think about human evolution." -Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet of Viruses "The Accidental Species is at once an eminently readable and important book. Employing years of ... Read more