The fossil chronicles : how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution /

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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 scie...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Falk, Dean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Fossil hominids.
Flores man.
Australopithecines.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human evolution > Philosophy.
Paleoanthropology.
Evolution (Biology)
Fossils.
Hominidae
Biological Evolution
Fossils
Homme fossile.
Homme de Flores.
Australopithèques.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Homme > Évolution > Philosophie.
Paléoanthropologie.
Évolution (Biologie)
Fossiles.
Homo floresiensis (extinct species)
paleoanthropology.
evolution.
fossils.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Paläanthropologie
Australopithecus africanus
Flores > Indonesien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Of paleopolitics and missing links
  • Taung : a fossil to rival Piltdown
  • Taung's checkered past
  • Sulcal skirmishes
  • Once upon a hobbit
  • Flo's little brain
  • Sick hobbits, quarrelsome scientists
  • Whence Homo floresiensis?
  • Bones to pick.

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