In The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, he traces the contingencies, false starts, and diversity of opinions that have characterized the intellectual
history of paleoanthropology from Darwin to today.
«The whole profession
of paleoanthropology is undergoing a big bout
of indigestion right now because they've had a lot
of material dropped on them,» says Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum
of Natural
History.