The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey : Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beard, K. Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Primates, Fossil.
Paleoanthropology.
Monkeys, Fossil.
Human beings > Origin.
Fossil hominids.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
NATURE > Fossils.
paleontology.
Primates (order)
paleoanthropology.
Paleontologie.
Primates.
Singes fossiles.
Paleoanthropologie.
Homme fossile.
Homme > Origines.
Primates fossiles.
Paleontology
Evolution
Primates
Paleontology.
Internet resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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