Shipman, a paleontologist herself, is among the best writers who manage to describe science to popular audiences without sacrificing the complexities of the issues that energize and sometimes divide scientists.
   --John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review

Pat Shipman's latest book gives us two wonderful, beautifully designed books for the price of one. Here you will find the story of the most important human fossil ever discovered, blended with a larger-than-life drama revolving around an unforgettable man. If you haven't already discovered the joys of reading Pat Shipman, do so now.
   --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

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 Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science
• The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of <i>Proconsul</i>