The volume is 'must' reading. Shipman gives readers a compelling discussion and candidly asks: 'Have we the courage and intelligence to face the truth about ourselves?'
   --Kirkus Review

Shipman has written a courageous, thought-provoking and elegant book.
   --Los Angeles Times

This smoothly written book is a welcome addition to intellectual history.
   --New York Times Book Review

Pat Shipman is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (coauthored with Alan Walker) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing, which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998.

Read More by Pat Shipman:

• The Human Skeleton
• The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugène Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
• The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of <i>Proconsul</i>