Comments on: Book review – The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past/2021/03/10/book-review-the-sediments-of-time-my-lifelong-search-for-the-past/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:19:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/03/10/book-review-the-sediments-of-time-my-lifelong-search-for-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-18144Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:54:32 +0000/?p=12898#comment-18144[…] As a journalist who has published in the New York Times, GQ, and other outlets, it comes as no surprise that Pattison engagingly portrays the human interest story. He has extensively interviewed the people around White, including Ethiopian collaborators such as Berhane Asfaw, Alemu Ademassu, and Yohannes Haile-Selassie, or the creationist-turned-palaeoanthropologist Owen Lovejoy. But he also speaks to White’s many adversaries, including Ian Tattersall, Lucy team members Jon Kalb and the celebrity-loving Don Johanson, as well as members of the world-famous Leakey dynasty. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/03/10/book-review-the-sediments-of-time-my-lifelong-search-for-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-18142Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:50:33 +0000/?p=12898#comment-18142[…] Some topics covered are the history palaeoanthropological discoveries that, thanks in particular to the Leakey dynasty, shifted in focus from Europe and Asia to Africa from 1924 onwards. There is a recap of the history […]

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