The Wisdom of the Bones

Summary

A first-hand account for general readers of the discovery and analysis of a remarkably complete Homo erectus skeleton found near Lake Turkana. Shipman and Walker reconstruct the life, anatomy, and likely behaviour of the "Nariokotome Boy," using him to argue that key features of the human body evolved well before our distinctive cognition. The book shows how a single fossil can reshape ideas about how we became human.