Ignacio Martínez

This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. The Chosen Species is written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca—a World Heritage Site and Europe's oldest known burial site—where a new human species, Homo antecessor, was discovered. It discusses various hypotheses of...