In search of our ancient ancestors : from the Big Bang to modern Britain, in science & myth / Anthony Adolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adolph, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Origin.

Human beings.

Human evolution.

Great Britain--Genealogy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, [England] : Pen & Sword Family History, 2015.

Summary:

"From single-celled organisms to sea-dwelling vertebrates; amphibians to reptiles; tiny mammals to primitive man; the first Homo sapiens to the cave painters of Ice Age Europe and the first farmers down to the Norman Conquest, this book charts not only the extraordinary story of our ancient ancestors but also our 40,000-year-long quest to discover our roots, from ancient origin myths of world-shaping mammoths and great floods down to the scientific discovery of our descent from the Genetic Adam and the Mitochondrial Eve"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Book of Life

Chapter 1: Tracing the Family Tree of Life

Chapter 2: Starting with a Bang

Chapter 3: In the Primal Seas

Chapter 4: First Steps on Dry Land

Chapter 5: Meet the Synapsids

Part Two: Book of Man

Chapter 6: The Southern Ape-Men

Chapter 7: Of Habilis and Hobbits

Chapter 8: The Neanderthals of Oldbury Hill

Chapter 9: 'Thinking Man'

Chapter 10: The Genetic Adam and Eve

Chapter 11: Out of Africa

Chapter 12: My Great-grandfather, the Neanderthal

Part Three: Book of Ice

Chapter 13: Our Crô-Magnon Family Tree

Chapter 14: How to Visualise a Flying Rhinoceros

Chapter 15: The People of the Lion Man

Chapter 16: The Reindeer Hunters of Creswell Crags

Chapter 17: Leading the High Life at La Madeleine

Chapter 18: Voices from the Caves

Part Four: Book of Grain

Chapter 19: The False Spring

Chapter 20: The Stag Dancers of Star Carr

Chapter 21: From the City of Plastered Skulls

Chapter 22: The Heroes from the Sea

Chapter 23: Our Ancestors in the Age of Troy

Chapter 24: '… And All That'

Part Five: Book of Myths

Chapter 25: Looking Back in Wonder

Chapter 26: Out of the Chasm

Chapter 27: 'Upon the Face of the Waters'

Chapter 28: The World Shapers

Chapter 29: The Birth of Mankind

Chapter 30: The Great Flood

Chapter 31: An Origin Myth for Britain?

Chapter 32: Tendrils from the Past

Chapter 33: Creation, Evolution or Aliens?

Epilogue: How You Fit Into the Story

Acknowledgements

Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4738-4922-5

1-4738-4924-1