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Author: Timothy Taylor
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.30cm
Weight: 0.427kg
ISBN: 9780230617636
ISBN 10: 0230617638
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 September 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Taylor is an engaging and entertaining writer...this is a stimulating book...' - Engineering and Technology 'Taylor is a good storyteller.' -Antiquity
This beautifully written and magnificently eclectic book asks questions, encourages discussion, and ardently takes us away from the familiar byways of biological and cultural evolution. The Artificial Ape deserves a wide audience...This is Taylor at his best - and his best is very good indeed. --Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age, for Current Archaeology <p> By the time I had finished reading the first few pages of The Artificial Ape I was breathless with excitement, by the time I had finished the last pages I was sure that Taylor's understanding of how humans have evolved, and what makes them unique in the material world changes the debate about human evolution forever. And as if that were not enough, the book is beautifully written. --Christopher Potter, author of You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe <p> Our lives depend on houses, water pipes, clothes; but Taylor argues that we have been technologically dependent for two million years, from spears and fi
<p> By the time I had finished reading the first few pages of The Artificial Ape I was breathless with excitement, by the time I had finished the last pages I was sure that Taylor's understanding of how humans have evolved, and what makes them unique in the material world changes the debate about human evolution forever. And as if that were not enough, the book is beautifully written.”--Christopher Potter, author of You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe <p> Our lives depend on houses, water pipes, clothes; but Taylor argues that we have been technologically dependent for two million years, from spears and fire onward.  Unlike all other creatures, our evolutionary fitness is measured non-biologically: we are an intrinsically artificial species, and have been from the start. A sharp and unsettling argument and a provocative book. --Richard Granger, author of Big Brain <p>“The uniqueness of humankind is obvious everywhere we look, from our unlimited creativ
Author Information
Timothy Taylor, PhD is the author of The Buried Soul and The Prehistory of Sex. He has appeared on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic specials, contributes to such publications as Nature, Scientific American, and World Archaeology, and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Prehistory. He teaches archaeology at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
