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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.