
It is the ultimate mystery: where do we come from? In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White uncovered a set of ancient bones in Ethiopia’s Afar region.

A work of staggering depth." - Minneapolis Star TribuneĪ decade in the making, Fossil Men is a scientific detective story played out in anatomy and the natural history of the human body: the first full-length account of the discovery of a startlingly unpredicted human ancestor more than a million years older than Lucy In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." - New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

Pattison's uncanny ability to write evocatively about science.
