HUMANS, OUR ANCESTORS AND THEIR FOSSILS

Why do platypuses lay eggs but we don’t? Why did our ancestors develop hair? And how realistic was Jurassic Park , anyway? In this absorbing book paleontologist Kai Jäger visits some fascinating excavation sites and explains along the way how he and his colleagues work (what is the mysterious “Bone Lick” test?); debunks a few myths (fossils are never uncovered only using a big brush) and shows in an accessible, entertaining way what the fossils of our biological relatives tell us about our own evolution. Or put another way, how much of them is still part of us today.