Lone Survivors

Regrettably, this is just the American publication of "The Origin of Our Species", published in 2011 by Allen Lane, London, England. It is a good book and certainly worth publishing in the US for the benefit of Transatlantic readers. It would have helped if the Amazon sales blurb had indicated that this was the US publication of a slightly earlier British edition.I'm quite a fan of Chris Stringer's work, but totally unimpressed by Amazon's attempt to boost their sales by marketing the same book under a different title, without any indication that it is a word-for-word duplication of the original British publication.

I am now waiting for my order to arrive and i can say that i a not impressed. I already own the origin of our species which is a excellent book, however the fact that it is titled differently and does not state so in the description is hugely irritating. The Star rating is for the origin of species and not for the sellers description and services.

The book is excellent, but British buyers need to be aware that this is the American edition of what in Britain is published as The Origin of Our Species. I managed to buy both editions, not realising that they were the same book.

It you want the paperback edition of 'The Origin of Our Species', this is it!! Published in the USA and with a different title (why?) by a different publisher. Please look at the bottom of the ISBN page - in very small print. It's a marvellous book - just don't buy both, as I did.

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