Pat Shipman

How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species. Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship has proved to be a pivotal development in our evolutionary history. The same is also true for our canine friends; our...

"A lively tale of dog domestication and migration." - Nature "When, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable? A tour de force drawing together under one proverbial roof what science can tell us to date." - Wendy Williams, author of The Horse "Makes a remarkable story out of the...

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the...