The Human Story: Where We Come from and how We EvolvedSterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2008 - 111 sayfa Anthropology professor Charles Lockwood tells the amazing story of human evolution in a concise and compelling introduction to all our ancestors and extinct relatives. He draws on the explosion of discoveries made over the past 20 years to demystify the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to our origins, and describes the main sites, individual fossils, key scientific breakthroughs, and latest research that have fed our knowledge. With the help of a rich assortment of photographs, reconstructions, and maps, Lockwood takes us from the earliest hominins, who date back six or seven million years ago, to contemporary homo sapiens, providing the basic facts about each species: what it looked like, what it ate, how and when it lives, and how we know this information. Created in association with London’s Natural History Museum, this is a truly readable, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and user-friendly summary of the evidence as it stands today. |
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INTRODUCTION | 7 |
EARLIEST HOMININS | 13 |
AUSTRALOPITHECUS | 19 |
Australopithecus bahrelghazali | 34 |
PARANTHROPUS | 40 |
Paranthropus robustus | 48 |
Paranthropus aethiopicus | 56 |
Homo rudolfensis | 65 |
Homo ergaster | 78 |
Homo neanderthalensis | 88 |
FURTHER INFORMATION | 108 |
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