Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of such books as Jacob's Ladder, In Search of Deep Time, The Science of Middle-Earth, and A Field Guide to Dinosaurs, the last with Luis V. Rey.
Quite simply, the best book ever written about the fossil record and humankind's place in evolution. <br>--John Gribbin, author of Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique