Shaping humanity : how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins /
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| Author / Creator: | Gurche, John, author. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] |
| Description: | xvi, 345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9751418 |
Table of Contents:
- Beginnings : Sahelanthropus tchadensis (6 to 7 million years ago)
- Walkers and climbers : Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago)
- The impossible discovery : Australopithecus africanus (3.3 to 2. 1 million years ago)
- The paradoxical specialist : Paranthropus boisei (2.3. to 1.0 million years ago)
- Interlude: Transitional hominins and the origin of Homo
- The traveler : Homo erectus (1.8 to 0.1 million years ago)
- A symbolic animal : Homo heidelbergensis (0.7 to 0.2 million years ago)
- The other : Homo neanderthalensis (0.25 to 0.027 million years ago)
- The unlikely survivor : Homo floresiensis (0.095 to 0.017 million years ago)
- Linked : Homo sapiens (0.2 million years ago
- ?)
- Endings.
