The fossil trail : how we know what we think we know about human evolution /
One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints captured in stone - the earliest recorded steps...
| Основен автор: | Tattersall, Ian. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=12338 |
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Fossil trail. |
Съдържание:
- 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?