![]() | Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution. On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several best-selling books, fueled partly by the fact that the young men had resorted to cannibalism to survive. "[Rossano's] narrative describes a "microcosm of human evolution," and I think this book will grab the interest of many readers―students as well as the general public―as it teaches essential facts about the way Homo sapiens evolved."--David Hicks, Stony Brook University and Clare College, Cambridge University Matt J. Rossano is professor of psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved and Evolutionary Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior and Evolution . He blogs for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today on religion, science, evolution, and human behavior. |
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