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Summary: Funny and Smart
Review: "The Evolution Man, Or, How I Ate My Father" tells about a normal family in prehistorical times. The main character, Ernest, reminiscences how his family/clan, which was led by his father, discovered fire, domesticated dogs, invented the first bow, drew the first cave drawings, and more. Even though this
family lived thousands and thousands of years ago, they weren't so different from us. In fact, what I particularly liked about this book is that the main characters, while still ape-men, are talking and thinking like modern people. Ernest's father and his uncle keep arguing how "Modern Technology" (i.e., fire) is dangerous, and how maybe they should go back to the trees. Despite that, they are STILL ape-men: when Ernest's brother finds a wife, Ernest keeps thinking how amazingly fat she is - meaning, truly gorgeous!
Even though this book was very humoristic, it was also intellectually stimulating. It offered some very interesting points about how many things which are the cornerstones of human life started. All this is presented in a truly hilarious way.
I wholeheartly recommend this book for anyone, especially if you're a bit interested on how the human species was at the very beginning. Absolutely a wonderful book - I wish I could see this as a movie.
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Summary: Humorous but serious.
Review: Humoristic parable about the transition from ape to Homo sapiens with a pessimistic end.
Against the recommendations of his uncle, who defends the old order, the first intelligent anthropoid ape uses the fire he discovers to chase the wild animals and take their holes as a home. He forces his children to exogamy and develops research and technology, which he shares with everybody. The Darwinian evolution is marching on.
The evolution stalls when some of his children take power and keep the latest acquired technological knowledge for themselves in order to dominate the world. They do this against the will of their father, but they kill him.A very modern story, sparkingly told. Not to be missed.
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Summary: Extremely Fascinating!
Review: I had this book in the early '90's and loaned it to a friend. This friend gave it to another and that person to another... basically the book went missing. I have been searching for it ever since. I'm so very happy that it's in print again. Of course I had to buy a copy. I don't want to give any details without giving away the story - just believe me when I say that this is the funniest book I have ever read!
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Summary: Extremely Fascinating!
Review: I had this book in the early '90's and loaned it to a friend. This friend gave it to another and that person to another... basically the book went missing. I have been searching for it ever since. I'm so very happy that it's in print again. Of course I had to buy a copy. I don't want to give any details without giving away the story - just believe me when I say that this is the funniest book I have ever read!
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Summary: The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father
Review: I picked up this tidy little volume on the sale table at the local book store and have read it 3 times, I'm on the 4th time now! It's a clever look at evolution, adaptation, and prehistoric life through the eyes of a rather civilized just-out-of-the-trees family. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an entertaining, fun, read! The perfect vacation book!
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Summary: Witty
Review: Roy Lewis has taken an extremely controversial topic and created a witty and humorous book. I felt extremely comfortable reading the book and found each little explanation of evolution (how his father got fire) to be slightly true.
Great read, especially if you love sciences or history.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Simultaneously one of the most intelligent and funny books I have ever encountered in a long life of reading. Author Lewis had a genius idea with this one and realizes it in perfect detail ... down to the last tasty morsel. Does acquaintance with the theories of human evolution help? Yes. Is it required to appreciate this book? No. Will you find yourself laughing and yet learning things that you would normally find only in a dry text book? Undoubtedly.
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Summary: A classic tale of love, patricide and cannibalism.
Review: Sweet Jehovah, this is a funny book. The conceit is an obvious one when you think about it - write the story of our evolutionary ancestors from a first-person perspective, but in a language that shows all the sensibilities of a well-read, reflective and slightly pompous late-nineteenth century Englishman. The courtship scenes alone I think I have re-read about fifty times and never without laughing.
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Summary: Pouquoi j'ai mangé mon père (Why I ate my father)
Review: This book is very easy to read and intoduces anthropology to the layman in a witty and light-hearted way. It manages to combine a history lesson (albeit with a slight stretching of the truth!), a prehistoric love story, and some very funny situations. Additionally, there are underlying comments that add a cautionary note on the dangers of uncontrolled (and often uncontrollable) progress, which rings true even in the present day.
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Summary: all-time-favorite book
Review: We first read this book in Kenya in the early 60s, while we were working on the archaeology of early man. Subsequently my husband taught anthropology (Plio-Pleistocene archaeology) at U.C. Berkeley and used it as a text to lighten his Introduction to Archaeology classes. As "practitioners" we found it hilarious and amazingly insightful, and it has continued to provide amusement ever since. Our battered paperback has long needed replacement, and is shelved where it cannot be permanently borrowed by an envious reader. PLEASE reprint in English. I always wanted to ask Mr. Lewis if he had modelled Father after Dr. Louis Leakey.... Another light-hearted and well-informed view of evolution is the Larry Gonick "History of Everything, Including Sex"
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