Books
July, 1972
The mystery of human evolution, perhaps the greatest detective story ever told, may never be solved. But it won't be for lack of trying. In a stunning tour de force titled The Descent of Woman (Stein and Day). Oxford graduate Elaine Morgan points out what should have been obvious long ago: that when man came down from the trees, woman came down with him--and that much of the speculation about evolution is in error because it fails to take the female into full account. The male scientist has fall...