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Title: Absorbing read, pacy and well-written
Review: Having been lucky enough to get an advance copy of "Eve", I can safely predict that it will change the course of thinking about who we are and where we have come from. In essence it champions South Africa's case for the region in which two critical developments occurred during our long journey towards modern homo sapienhood: the emergence of anatomically modern humans along South Africa's southern coastline some 200 000 to 100 000 years ago, and the suggestion that Sterkfontein may hold the key to a "speciation" event in which the ape men began taking on the morphological form of Homo some 2,8 million years ago.It's an absorbing read, pacy and well-written, giving the reader an insight not only into the detective-like quest for our oldest ancestors but also laying bare the intense and sometimes irrational competition between scientists seeking fame and fortune through fossil hunting.
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