Connecting the Dots. Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth

Dr. Gregory Forth’s latest publication, Between Ape and Human, is his first monograph directed to a general audience, while maintaining scholarly approach. It provides more accessible, welcome authoritative voice addressing the timely anthropological question, “Are other hominins alive today?” (Forth, 2012). His decades of enthnographic field research are juxtaposed with discovery fossil on eastern Indonesian island Flores. The 50,000-year-old skeletal remains an australopoithecine-like hominin seemed lend substance traditional contemporary stories hairy diminutive ape-men that may survive this day.
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