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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940253 0520940253 1597349399 9781597349390 1282358723 9781282358720 9786612358722 6612358726 1417584947 9781417584949 |