The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he...
| Основен автор: | Beard, K. Christopher. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129001 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Hunt for the dawn monkey. |
Съдържание:
- Missing links and dawn monkeys
- Toward Egypt's sacred bull
- A gem from the Willwood
- The forest in the Sahara
- Received wisdom
- The birth of a ghost lineage
- Initial hints from deep time
- Ghost busters
- Resurrecting the ghost
- Into the African melting pot
- Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia.