Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Kermit Pattison

544 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of “Ardi,” a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution.In 1994, a team led...

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informative 95%
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challenging 35%
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mysterious 5%
tense 5%
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medium 47%

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