Ian Tattersall
Autor(a) de Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
About the Author
Ian Tattersall, PhD, is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he co-curated the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. He is an acknowledged leader in the study of the human fossil record, and has won several awards, including the mostrar mais W. W. Howells Prize of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tattersall has appeared on Charlie Rose and NPR's Science Friday, and has written for Scientific American and Archaeology. He's been widely cited by the media, including The New York Times, BBC, MSNBC, and National Geographic. Tattersall is the author of some twenty titles, including Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. He lives in Greenwich Village. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Ian Tattersall
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution (2015) 109 cópias
The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives (1600) 92 cópias
Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race (2018) — Autor — 22 cópias
The Human Fossil Record, Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus I Homo/I (Europe) (Volume 1) (2002) 5 cópias
The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia) (Volume 2) (2003) 4 cópias
Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack (Hardback) - Common (2015) 3 cópias
El cerebro (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Neandertaler 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind (2011) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
Evolution of Your Body: Leading Edge Thinking on Brain, Eye, Development, Regeneration, and More (2015) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 3 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Tattersall, Ian
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-05-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- England, UK
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Yale University (PhD)
- Ocupação
- curator
Paleoanthropologist - Organizações
- American Museum of Natural History
- Premiações
- W. W. Howells Prize
- Pequena biografia
- Ian Tattersall is a paleoanthropologist and curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His extensive research interests include hominins and lemurs, and he has written extensively about both primate groups. [from Evolution of Your Body (2015)]
Membros
Resenhas
The strange case of the rickety Cossack : and other… de Ian Tattersall
A must read for those with an abiding interest in human evolution. I enjoyed the sections on lemurs and the explanation of cladistics.
I can’t help picking these books on anthropology off the book store shelves. Honestly though, my brain feels a bit overloaded with this data and the conflicting theories inevitable as science works its way towards the truth are getting overlapped and confused in my memory.
The first 2 chapters were a slog for this non-scientist, non-mathematician. After glazed eyes and some skipped pages, I made it to the excellent final 3 chapters that convincingly argue against the overly adaptationist, gene-centered focus of sociobiology/evolutionary psychology. Clearly presents the thesis that once culture enters the picture, the biology, though a persistent background, is no longer the foreground. The range of human behaviors is beyond any gene specific reduction.
This is a highly recommended read if you want to get a brief overview of the earliest human history. Ian Tattersall is very professional, that is clear, and he also knows how to hit the right note. For example, he clearly shows how relative the findings of paleoanthropology are, and how careful you should be with new fossil discoveries: “the problem has been that paleoanthropologists have tended to dive in at the deep end, going directly to full-fledged scenarios. This has tended to reduce discussion in the field to a sort of storytelling competition.”
And he gives another typical example of his nuanced thinking in dispelling the simplistic scheme of a growth from primitiveness to civilization, for example in the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers: “Hunter-gatherers have a totally different perspective on the world from that of agriculturalists, it is true; but it is not necessarily a simpler one. The world views and social interactions of hunter-gatherers are (or, sadly, were) typically highly complex and nuanced, as are their interactions with the environment around them.”
Yet I see two weaknesses: Contrary to the explicit purpose of this Oxford series, Tattersall's focus nevertheless is very Eurocentric. The development of the Neanderthal and homo sapiens in Europe in particular gets a lot of attention, but that is of course also because scientific research has focused on this. Plus, this book was published in 2008, so it's still at the beginning of the genetic revolution. Tattersall already processes some results of the mitochondrial and the Y-chromosome research, but you can’t find the great new insights that have only emerged in the last 5 years. Still I highly recommend this book. More on this in my History-account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/360416896… (mais)
And he gives another typical example of his nuanced thinking in dispelling the simplistic scheme of a growth from primitiveness to civilization, for example in the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers: “Hunter-gatherers have a totally different perspective on the world from that of agriculturalists, it is true; but it is not necessarily a simpler one. The world views and social interactions of hunter-gatherers are (or, sadly, were) typically highly complex and nuanced, as are their interactions with the environment around them.”
Yet I see two weaknesses: Contrary to the explicit purpose of this Oxford series, Tattersall's focus nevertheless is very Eurocentric. The development of the Neanderthal and homo sapiens in Europe in particular gets a lot of attention, but that is of course also because scientific research has focused on this. Plus, this book was published in 2008, so it's still at the beginning of the genetic revolution. Tattersall already processes some results of the mitochondrial and the Y-chromosome research, but you can’t find the great new insights that have only emerged in the last 5 years. Still I highly recommend this book. More on this in my History-account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/360416896… (mais)
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
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- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 53
- ISBNs
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