Discovering us : fifty great discoveries in human origins / Evan Hadingham ; foreword by Kirk Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadingham, Evan, author.

Contributor:

Johnson, Kirk R., writer of foreword.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Origin.

Human beings.

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages : color illustrations color ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2021.

Summary:

"Over the past fifty years, researchers have made extraordinary discoveries that help us to understand who we are, where we came from, and what makes us human. Discovering Us brings our shared history to life and tells the stories behind fifty of the most important human origins discoveries ever made. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, this book celebrates science, exploration, and the search for what it means to be human. The Leakey Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in 1968 to fund human origins research and to share discoveries. Since then, the foundation has awarded more than 2,500 grants for research in 110 countries. Discovering Us highlights the thrilling fossil finds, groundbreaking primate behavior observations, and important scientific work of The Leakey Foundation researchers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: DISCOVERING US

Pioneering Primates

Alesi: Baby Ape

Madagascar's Lost Giants

The Blood Clock

The Great Chimpanzee War

Chimpanzee Reconciliation

The Face In the Desert

Unexpected Ardi: A Fossil In Fragments

Lucy, the Iconic Ancestor

First Footprints

The Peace Child

A Tale of Two Nutcrackers

Searching for the Earliest Tools

Chimpanzees of the Tat Forest

Chimpanzee Hunting

Bonobos' Powerful Sisterhood

First of Our Family

The Rise and Fall of 1470

The Skulls In the Cellar

The Case of the Shrinking Ancestor

Born, and Evolved, to Run

The Great Ancestral Bake-Off

Mountain Gorilla Mystery

Gorilla Bone Detectives

Secrets of the Orangutan Cycle

Ambush At the Lake

Our African Mothers

The Earliest "Us"

The Original Social Network

The Pit of the Bones

Resourceful "Brutes": The People of the Rock

Cracking the Neanderthal Code

The Finger In the Cave.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781560852773

1560852771

OCLC:

1267404460