Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. His books include Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins and The Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution. (August 2016)
Read the latest issue as soon as it’s available, and browse our rich archives. You'll have immediate subscriber-only access to over 1,200 issues and 25,000 articles published since 1963.
