The Ape in the Tree

An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul

Alan Walker

Pat Shipman

    Author's Note

    Prologue

    1. Luck and Unluck

    2. Love and the Tree

    3. An Arm and a Leg

    4. The Lost and the Found

    5. Back to the Miocene

    6. An Embarrassment of Riches

    7. How Did It Move?

    8. How Many Proconsuls?

    9. How Many Apes?

    10. Something to Chew On

    11. More on Teeth

    12. Listening to the Past

    Pronunciation of African Place Names

    Notes

    Index

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Photo of Pat Shipman by Alan Walker

Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc Award for The Wisdom of the Bones.

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.