Flat Feet, Clever Hands
Alison Jolly: Eastern ground apes, 7 October 2004
Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
by Jonathan Kingdon.
Princeton, 396 pp., £22.95, May 2003,0 691 05086 4 Show More
by Jonathan Kingdon.
Princeton, 396 pp., £22.95, May 2003,
“... better things to do with our hands than walk on them. You and I are the eastern ground apes of Jonathan Kingdon’s Lowly Origin: suggested occupants of one of the last great blank spaces on the map of human evolution. Kingdon is a defiant eccentric in the world of anthropology. He is a wonderful artist: his illustrations in the Atlas of Evolution in ... ”