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The fossil trail : how we know what we think we know about human evolution /

Main Author: Tattersall, Ian.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Fossil hominids.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Table of Contents:
  • Before Darwin
  • Darwin and after
  • Pithecanthropus
  • The early twentieth century
  • Out of Africa ...
  • ... Always something new
  • The synthesis
  • Olduvai Gorge
  • Rama's ape meets the mighty molecule
  • Omo and turkana
  • Hadar, Lucy, and Laetoli
  • Theory intrudes
  • Eurasia and Africa: odds and ends
  • Turkana and Olduvai-again
  • The cave-man vanishes
  • Candelabras and continuity
  • Where are we?

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