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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tattersall, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Temas:
Human evolution.
Fossil hominids.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Homme fossile.
Anthropologie préhistorique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Anthropology, Prehistoric
Fossil hominids
Human evolution
Paläanthropologie
Hominisation
Evolutie.
Mensen.
Methodologie.
Onderzoek.
Homme > Évolution.
Hominidés fossiles.
Paléoanthropologie.
Humans > Evolution
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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