One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it

As she displayed in her bestseller, The Hidden Life of Dogs, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we don't usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom.