Origins : human evolution revealed / Douglas Palmer.

  • Palmer, Douglas.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Mitchell Beazley, 2010.

Physical description

256 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm

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Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Meet the family -- Meet the ancestors. Proconsul africanus ; Dryopithecus ; Sahelanthropus tchadensis ; Ardipithecus ramidus ; Australopithecus afarensis ; Australopithecus africanus ; Paranthropus robustus ; Homo habilis ; Homo erectus, Homo ergaster ; Homo floresiensis ; Homo heidelbergensis ; Homo neanderthalensis ; Homo sapiens -- The human odyssey. The great African dispersal : first steps ; Tools and culture ; Into Australasia ; The origins of art ; The move into Europe ; Tools become weapons ; The peopling of the Americas ; The changing climate.

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    Medical Collection
    GN281 2010P33o
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781845334741
  • 1845334744