The Antiquity of Man by Michael Brass, AmErica House, $19.95, ISBN 1591293855 Reviewed by Mike Pitts
MICHAEL Brass promises a critique of two creationists’ views of human evolution. Then he goes on to sum up recent South African excavations, the most exciting arena in early human studies. But he misses a trick. The evidence has demolished the old Eurocentric notion that modern human behaviour appeared instantaneously, and shows that defining technologies, art and so on arose over hundreds of thousands of years – all fatal to creationist logic. So why not weave it into his argument against his target creationists?
