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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species - Hardcover
In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.
In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Amongst other questions, she looks at what fossilised teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy, what big data on fossils reveals about farming s problematic role in human evolution and how simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils can suggest the origin of our social nature. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters, we gain new perspectives into our first hominin ancestors, our first steps on two feet, our first forays into toolmaking and hunting, and our continuing evolution. Lee's curious nature and surprising conclusions make Close Encounters with Humankind a delight to read.
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"...Close Encounters with Humankind offers additional vistas on our unique plight..." --The Ideas Driving 2018, New Scientist
"Lee will inspire even experts with her efforts at elucidating a field often seen as arid and inscrutable. Close Encounters with Humankind emphasizes how much the past matters. Our 6-million year story has been massively shaped by chance and a changing environment. Lee shows that, now more than ever, our decisions can shape the future of Earth and its inhabitants, including ourselves." --Nature
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"Lee will inspire even experts with her efforts at elucidating a field often seen as arid and inscrutable. Close Encounters with Humankind emphasizes how much the past matters. Our 6-million year story has been massively shaped by chance and a changing environment. Lee shows that, now more than ever, our decisions can shape the future of Earth and its inhabitants, including ourselves." --Nature
Sang-Hee Lee is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences at UC Riverside, and lives in Riverside, California. She earned her MA and PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan.
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