Human evolution : a very short introduction /

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Author / Creator:Wood, Bernard A.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:131 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Language:English
Series:Very short introductions ; 142
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5787338
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ISBN:0192803603
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-124) and index.
Standard no.:9780192803603
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Finding our place
  • 3. Fossil hominins: their discovery and context
  • 4. Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation
  • 5. Early hominins: possible and probable
  • 6. Archaic and transitional hominins
  • 7. Pre-modern Homo
  • 8. Modern Homo
  • Timeline of thought and science relevant to human origins and evolution
  • Further reading
  • Index