<< Anyone ever read Elaine Morgan's nf book _Descent of Woman?_ It talks
about some of the structural changes that wrought homo sapiens, from a
feminist perspective. It's fascinating. >>
>Yes--loved it!! Her ideas about humans spending some time evolving on >the
shores of Africa (and hence no fossils of the time period, as they'd all >be
underwater) were extremely interesting. Now *there's* an interesting >time
period for a novel...
>Nicole
One taken up by Peter Dickinson in a YA novel 'A Bone from a Dry Sea', which
switches between 'Vinny... visiting the site where her father is one of a team
searching for the fossil remains of our ancestors' and 'Li' who lives 'between
the parching land and the mothering sea [with]... the tribe, our ancestors'.
Perhaps not my absolute favourite of Dickinson's works, but like anything he
writes, definitely well worth reading (and, like several other YA writers, his
work is of a sophistication which puts many so-called 'adult' writers to
shame).
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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