by M. Kay Martin (Author)

The Wrong Ape for Early Human Origins highlights the pervasive impact of the chimpanzee referential model on paleoanthropological theory. This work suggests the need to re-imagine the last common ancestor of chimps and humans based on a more generalized Miocene ape platform and the reliance of early hominins on epigenesis and creative niche construction.

Author Biography

M. Kay Martin is a research anthropologist and author of Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past.