Re: Book review: Out of Eden (Stephen Oppenheimer)
- From: "Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:46:48 -0400 (EDT)
"Anthony Campbell" <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e2669v$8jo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Stephen Oppenheimer
OUT OF EDEN
The peopling of the world
Book review by Anthony Campbell.
[Snip review] Nice reviewing job, btw.
In the US, this book is published under the title "The Real Eve:
Modern Man's Journey out of Africa". I read it a few months ago.
Interesting, and full of details. But opinionated - frequently
in the sneering Richard Dawkins kind of way that I find annoying.
(Still, I did appreciate the long digression on the academic infighting
regarding Clovis man.)
The book covers human evolution and migration roughly since 90 Ky ago.
It is a messy story, with lots of details, and Oppenheimer tries hard
to weave together the explanation of the evidence with the explanation
of the hypothesis into a coherent narrative. He doesn't quite succeed.
I found this book to be a tough read. But a worthwhile one.
.
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