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Human Origins
Desalle, Rob; Tattersall, Ian
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Description for Human Origins
Paperback. Series: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, col. ill. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSXE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 8. Weight in Grams: 650.
Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.
Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey’s Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson’s ... Read more
Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.
Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey’s Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603445184
SKU
V9781603445184
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About Desalle, Rob; Tattersall, Ian
Ron DeSalle is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. He curated the American Museum of Natural History's new Hall of Human Origins (2006) and has written more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and several books. Tattersall and DeSalle recently coauthored Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves ... Read more
Reviews for Human Origins
. . . an authoritative and fun publication that will be accessible to anyone with even the faintest recollection of high school biology or any curiosity whatsoever about how we came to be the way we are. - The Quarterly Review of Biology