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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Christopher Beard
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Description for The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Hardback. 8vo. Good clean copy
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, 'the dawn of recent life,' Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids - the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans - evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In "The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey", Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries ... Read more
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, 'the dawn of recent life,' Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids - the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans - evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In "The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey", Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
363
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520233690
SKU
KEX0265183
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About Christopher Beard
Chris Beard is Curator and Head, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant.
Reviews for The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
"Demonstrates that there is still much to be discovered about primate origins and evolution."
Reviews In Anthropology "Interested readers who want to become better informed about early primate evolution should turn to K. C. Beard's The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, an accessible, authoritative alternative."
Science (Aaas)
Reviews In Anthropology "Interested readers who want to become better informed about early primate evolution should turn to K. C. Beard's The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, an accessible, authoritative alternative."
Science (Aaas)