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Fossil Chronicles

Name: Fossil Chronicles
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 01246436
Price: 32.1 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Dean Falk
ISBN: 9780520274464

Dean Falk

Language

English

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Libristo code: 01246436

Publishers University of California Press, August 2012

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific... Full description

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Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insiders account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. The first is the Taung child, a two-million-year-old skull from South Africa that led anatomist Raymond Dart to argue that this creature had walked upright and that Africa held the key to the fossil ancestry of our species. The second find consisted of the partial skeleton of a three-and-a-half-foot-tall woman, nicknamed Hobbit, from Flores Island, Indonesia. She is thought by scientists to belong to a new, recently extinct species of human, but her story is still unfolding. Falk, who has studied the brain casts of both Taung and Hobbit, reveals new evidence crucial to interpreting both discoveries and proposes surprising connections between this pair of extraordinary specimens.