Comments on: Book review – Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human/2020/12/27/book-review-ancient-bones-unearthing-the-astonishing-new-story-of-how-we-became-human/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:25:23 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/27/book-review-ancient-bones-unearthing-the-astonishing-new-story-of-how-we-became-human/comment-page-1/#comment-50994Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:15:26 +0000/?p=11403#comment-50994[…] across the notion of the Sahara not being a permanent barrier to animal and plant migrations in Ancient Bones. That book mentions how both desert and savannah ecosystems were in flux over time. Williams here […]

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By: Book review – The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/27/book-review-ancient-bones-unearthing-the-astonishing-new-story-of-how-we-became-human/comment-page-1/#comment-34137Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:22:44 +0000/?p=11403#comment-34137[…] favoured by, Begun in The Real Planet of the Apes. And he briefly touches on the limb anatomy of Danuvius guggenmosi and Ardipithecus ramidus (especially its big toe, such a bone of contention in Fossil […]

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By: Book review – Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Fossil Skeleton and the Battle to Define Human Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/27/book-review-ancient-bones-unearthing-the-astonishing-new-story-of-how-we-became-human/comment-page-1/#comment-18002Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:31:07 +0000/?p=11403#comment-18002[…] This is not a popular strategy and the briefly-featured Michel Brunet was similarly scolded in Ancient Bones for holding back important material. A full 15 years pass between an initial 1994 announcement in […]

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By: Book review – The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/27/book-review-ancient-bones-unearthing-the-astonishing-new-story-of-how-we-became-human/comment-page-1/#comment-16384Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:08:20 +0000/?p=11403#comment-16384[…] a book published in 2015: I had just started reading the foreword of the recently published Ancient Bones when it occurred to me that its spiel – our deep evolutionary history lies in Europe rather than […]

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