The Red Ape
Subtitle: Orangutans and Human Origins
Edition: Rev Upd edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780813340647
Subjects: Biological anthropology; Popular science; Orangutan; Physical Anthropology; Social Science; Nature; Sociology; Apes & Monkeys; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology; Human Evolution; Anthropology - Physical
Description: "In upending the conventional wisdom on relationships between apes and humans, Schwartz provides a fresh examination of the fossil record, genetics, and the comparative anatomy and physiology of humans and other living primates. Discussing these topics from a historical, philosophical, and theoretical perspective, he argues that it is the Asian orangutan, not the African chimpanzee, bonobo, or gorilla, that is humankind's closest evolutionary cousin. The result is a challenge to what we think we know about the origins of humans"--Book jacket.