The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /
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| Author / Creator: | Beard, K. Christopher. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135033 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> <br> In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work of Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, to the latest discoveries in Asia, Africa, and North America's Rocky Mountains. Against this historical backdrop, he weaves the story of how his own expeditions have unearthed crucial fossils--including the controversial primate Eosimias --that support his compelling new vision of anthropoid evolution. The only book written for a wide audience that explores this remote phase of our own evolutionary history, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey adds a fascinating new chapter to our understanding of humanity's relationship to the rest of life on earth. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940253 0520940253 1597349399 9781597349390 0520233697 9780520233690 1282358723 9781282358720 9786612358722 6612358726 1417584947 9781417584949 |