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"Endlessly absorbing and informative. It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to this most important and fascinating field.”—Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything
Paleontology: A Brief History of Life is the fifth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties.In this volume, Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings.�Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth’s environment. He introduces the complex of evolutionary processes, situates human beings in the luxuriant diversity of Life (demonstrating that however remarkable we may legitimately find ourselves to be, we are the product of the same basic forces and processes that have driven the evolutionary histories of all other creatures), and he places the origin of our extraordinary spiritual sensibilities in the context of the exaptational and emergent acquisition of symbolic cognition and thought.�Concise and yet comprehensive, historically penetrating and yet up-to-date, responsibly factual and yet engaging, Paleontology serves as the perfect entr�e to science's greatest story.
- Sales Rank: #1132823 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Templeton Press
- Published on: 2010-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Ian Tattersall is a curator in the division of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar. He is also a prominent interpreter of human paleontology to the public.
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I am retired so bit of a fossil myself. I am on my third listen to this book I have enjoyed it so much. With understandable depth (not a pun) and adequate challenge to my knowledge level I cannot leave it alone. Tied with other readings and my personal monologue of 50,000 words discussing the evolution/creation debate it is a valuable resource. I cannot repeat enough the great information and kindle professional reading of this work. I also read 'Your Inner Fish' by Neil Shubin - also an excellent book on fossil records. If this is your interest level you will get a lot out of this work.
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This is excellent book that providea a brief overview of the field of paleontology. A great book for nonscientists.
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A Field Guide to the History of Life that is Lucid but Rushed
By Paul R. Fleischman M.D. author of Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant.
"Paleontology A Brief History of Life" by Ian Tattersall
It is difficult for human beings to grasp the very long time scales and complicated processes that are responsible for the evolution of life on Earth. “Paleontology,” by Ian Tattersall, is intended to be a brief introduction, something like a field guide, or a tourist manual to the history of life. It succeeds as a lucid summary by an expert.
This book was written under a confining agenda, since it was commissioned by the Templeton Science and Religion Series. It fits within a framework of “short and compelling books that are concise and convenient…for a general audience with interests in the sciences or humanities…”
The good news is that this book fulfills its agenda, and can be counted on by the general reader for its brevity and authority. The bad news is that Ian Tattersall has written much better books, and that much better books already exist to help the general reader to understand the history of life. This book is too rushed and compressed to be truly evocative of the wonder of its subject matter.
This book begins with the origin of planet Earth and it ends with the cognitive revolution of the human brain. It covers about four billion years in two hundred pages. Examples of its fine passages include this one: “ Sit back and watch the passing parade of animal life changing before your eyes as the epochs unroll.”
An example of its frantic, over-stuffed prose would be: “Taeniodonts, tillodonts, pantodonts, and the archaic ungulate genera all virtually disappeared.” Thus we are too quickly swept along through epochs and eras, animals, bone structures, fish, frogs and people.
“Paleontology” is at its best when Tattersall is discussing human evolution, on which he is a world-class expert. For example, he evokes and compresses the phenomenon of hominid evolution into the dominance of vision over smell, improved manipulative capacities in the hand, enlargement of the higher centers of the brain, and complex social relations. However, this book is only a pale copy of Tattersall’s book, “Masters of the Planet.” To hold in the mind’s eye in wonder the sweep of evolutionary changes in animal forms that carry us from a naked Earth to human civilization, I personally would prefer books such as, DK’s “Prehistoric Life,” (a book predominantly of pictures), or the classic with Stephen Jay Gould as general editor, “The Book of Life.”
While “Paleontology” has excellence, its agenda of compression reduces the wonder of life to a foreshortened history analogous to those brief texts that list all the kings who ruled but give you little feeling for the story lived by all the citizens.
Reviewed by Paul R. Fleischman author of "Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant"
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