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Missing links : in search of human origins / John Reader ; [foreword by Andrew Hill].
LIBRA GN282 .R42 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reader, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fossil hominids.
- Paleoanthropology--History.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Anthropology, Prehistoric.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 538 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- [Enlarged and updated edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- What can a prehistoric skeleton tell us about human origins? From Neanderthal Man to 'Lucy' to the Flores Hobbits, fossil finds have played a key part in the quest to understand our ancestry. Writer and photographer John Reader tells the fascinating story of breakthrough finds, fiercely contested theories, and a rapidly developing science. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Time and place
- The meaning of fossils
- Nothing so rare
- Neanderthal man (1857)
- Neanderthals and modern humans
- Java man (1891)
- Piltdown man (1912)
- Australopithecus africanus (1925)
- Peking man (1926)
- Australopithecus substantiated (1936)
- Zinjanthropus boisei (1959)
- Tools
- Homo habilis (1964)
- 1470 (1972) and the oldest man
- Australopithecus afarensis (1978)
- Footprints
- Ardipithecus ramidus (1994 & 2009).
- Notes:
- Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-523) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199276851
- 0199276854
- OCLC:
- 707267298
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