The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
(Sprache: Englisch)
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. This title offers an insider's account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found...
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Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. This title offers an insider's account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Of Paleopolitics and Missing Links 2. Taung: A Fossil to Rival Piltdown 3. Taung's Checkered Past 4. Sulcal Skirmishes 5. Once upon a Hobbit 6. Flo's Little Brain 7. Sick Hobbits, Quarrelsome Scientists 8. Whence Homo floresiensis? 9. Bones to Pick Notes Glossary References Index
Autoren-Porträt von Dean Falk
Dean Falk is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her previous books include Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origin of Language and Braindance, Revised and Expanded Edition: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dean Falk
- 2011, 259 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 23,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
- ISBN-10: 0520266706
- ISBN-13: 9780520266704
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Brilliant... Sparkles with scholarship and wit."--Nature "The book is part historical drama, part neurological crash course and part autobiography ... The combination is refreshing."--Wall Street Journal
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