Evolution : the human story
How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth, capable of sending spaceships to the Moon? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evidence for the earliest primates goes back an astonishing 60 million years, but it was around seven million years ago that some apes started walking on two legs. This was the first sign of human-ness, of a lineage that would teeter on the brink of e
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9780756691844, 9781409383307, 0756691842, 140938330X
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Understanding our past / author, Michael J. Benton ; consultants, Fiona Coward, Paul O'Higgins
Primates / author, Colin Groves ; consultant, Eric J. Sargis
Hominins / author, Kate-Robson-Brown, with contributions by Fiona Coward ; consultant, Katerina Harvati
Out of Africa / author, Alice Roberts ; consultant, Stephen Oppenheimer
From hunters to farmers / author, Jane McIntosh ; consultant, Peter Bogucki
Includes index
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