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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings Of Human Evolution (2013)

by Henry Gee(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0226284883 (ISBN13: 9780226284880)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

University Of Chicago Press

review 1: Parts of the book are excellent and Gee writes well. He does an adequate job of making his case that viewing human evolution as a continuous path towards Homo sapiens may be an over-reach given the paucity of fossils. However, he lost me completely in his attempt to reject human exceptionalism. Even though he repeatedly states that he has made the case…he doesn't make the case. In fact, in his recitations of various studies and facts, he generally lead me to think that we are exceptional. Then he would finish with a quick rejection of all that he had just presented. He also needlessly digresses into a rant against creationists which appeared to me to be a personal conflict.
review 2: Brilliant little book that explains evolution in an accessible manne... morer. Evolution as a natural process that produces successful and unsuccessful organisms. "The Accidental Species" says it all. Humans are no the result of a linear development process aiming toward perfection, simply the one species that survived with the tools that allowed them view the world as if they were the inevitable end result of a process leading to perfection. less

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