A forensic anthropologist unmasks insidious interpretations of fossil finds.
A replica hominid skull is handled at the unveiling of a newly discovered species at Maropeng Museum, in Magaliesburg, South Africa, in 2013.Wits Univ. Press
Morris walks through the historical sequence of key palaeoanthropology findings in South Africa, setting each in an international context. The importance of these discoveries cannot be underestimated. Without them, we would have continued to have a Eurasian-centric, and thus faulty, view of early human evolution. Morris reveals where racial bias and skewed interpretations entered the scientific process.
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