Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is a paleoanthropologist and a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Tattersall received his PhD from Yale University in 1971. In addition to human evolution, he has worked extensively with lemurs.

Selected publications

The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human. Harvest Books, 2003, ISBN 0-156-02706-2
Paleoanthropology: The Last Half-Century Evolutionary Anthropology 9, no. 1 (2000): 2-16.
Extinct Humans. I. Tattersall & J. Schwartz. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000.
The Human Chin Revisited: What Is It and Who Has It? Journal of Human Evolution 38 (2000): 367-409.
Hominids and Hybrids: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution. I. Tattersall & J. Schwartz, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. 96 (1999): 7117-7119.
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relative. New York: Macmillan, 1995 (republished by Westview Press, 1999).
The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Primates of Madagascar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.