The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /

The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /

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Author / Creator:	Beard, K. Christopher.
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
Subject:	Primates, Fossil. Monkeys, Fossil. Fossil hominids. Human beings -- Origin. Paleoanthropology. Primates. Evolution Paleontology. Fossil hominids. Human beings -- Origin. Monkeys, Fossil. Paleoanthropology. Primates, Fossil. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135033

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ISBN:	9780520940253 0520940253 1597349399 9781597349390 0520233697 9780520233690 1282358723 9781282358720 9786612358722 6612358726 1417584947 9781417584949
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. English. Print version record.
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. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga.
Other form:	Print version: Beard, K. Christopher. Hunt for the dawn monkey. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520233697

Table of Contents:

Missing links and dawn monkeys
Toward Egypt's sacred bull
A gem from the Willwood
The forest in the Sahara
Received wisdom
The birth of a ghost lineage
Initial hints from deep time
Ghost busters
Resurrecting the ghost
Into the African melting pot
Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia.