Kermit Pattison is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Fast Company, Runner's World, and Time, among many other publications. He has spent more than five years researching this story, including extensive time in the field with Tim White's team. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Fossil Men is a wonderful mix of history, science and politics, full of pathos and insight in equal measure. This book should be required reading for all those who care about how science may help answer the question of who we are as humans. A monumental achievement! --HASOK CHANG, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Fossil Men is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life. At the core of Kermit Pattison's rip-roaring tale is the prickly, obsessive, brilliant American paleonaut, Tim White, who braves revolutions, tribal warfare, and bitter scientific rivals to unearth ancient bones, without which there would be no pre-history, no civilization, no humanity. --PETER NICHOLS, New York Times bestselling author of The Rocks and Evolution's Captain