Publisher's Synopsis
"Anthropology has failed to solve the riddle of human evolution. Existing evolutionary models are unable to account for the scope of the differences that distinguish humans from other animals. In Beyond Biology, Hallinan turns a critical eye towards his own field and presents an original and ground-breaking hypothesis about how humanity was able to get on a unique evolutionary track: We are not just another kind of animal; we are a different kind of life-form. We have evolved beyond the framework of biology. Getting human evolution right is not simply an academic exercise. To be able to make our peace with nature we must come to understand what we are and how we fit into the natural world"--.
