我们，人类 We, Hominids

With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, tracing the search for the first human being: the missing link between humans and apes. Westerman introduces us to the world of skull hunters – leading experts in our fossil ancestry – whose lives are just as fascinating as those of their primeval discoveries. He astutely reconsiders the work of illustrious paleoanthropologists in the light of new DNA technology, postcolonialism, and the rise of women in this male-dominated field. Westerman discovers a plethora of origin hypotheses and shows how any theory of who we are and where we come from is colored by the zeitgeist.

We, Hominids is a compelling mixture of reportage, travelogue and essay – reminiscent of Bruce Chatwin or Ryszard Kapuscinski – written by a brilliant storyteller and thinker.

他以一个古老的头骨为出发点，周游全球，追寻第一个人类的踪迹：人类和猿类之间缺失的联系。韦斯特曼向我们介绍了头骨猎人的世界，他们是我们化石祖先中的主要专家，他们的生活与原始发现一样迷人。根据新的DNA技术、后殖民主义以及女性在这个男性主导的领域的崛起，他敏锐地重新考虑了杰出的古人类学家的工作。韦斯特曼发现了大量的起源假说，并展示了任何关于我们是谁以及我们来自何处的理论都是如何被时代精神所影响的。

《我们，人类》是由一位杰出的故事讲述者和思想家所写的报告文学、游记和散文的令人信服的混合体——让人联想到布鲁斯·查特温（Bruce Chatwin）或雷萨尔德·卡普辛斯基（Ryszard Kapuscinski）。