The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

From young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman - Ian 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.