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Many people assume that palaeoanthropology deals only with the past. The thinking goes that, beyond a curious, somehow romantic interest in the early accounts of our ancestors, there is not much that this discipline can add to the understanding of present-day humans. South Korean palaeoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee disputes that view in Close Encounters with Humankind. She shows us to ourselves as the living (and, importantly, still changing) outcome of a wonderful interplay between biology and natural selection over the roughly 6 million years since hominins diverged from the chimpanzee lineage.
