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Title

The last human : a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans / created by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak ; text by Esteban Sarmiento, G.J. Sawyer and Richard Milner ; with contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Maeve Leakey and Ian Tattersall

Author

Sarmiento, Esteban E.

Publication

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Sawyer, G. J. (Gary J.)
• Milner, Richard, 1941-
• Deak, Viktor.
• Tattersall, Ian.

Description

256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 28 cm.

Subject

• Fossil hominids
• Human evolution
• Paleoanthropology > Methodology
• Human beings > Origin

Note

• "A Peter N. Nevraumont book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Donald C. Johanson -- We were not alone. Introduction / by Ian Tattersall -- The earliest African hominids. Morning encounters. Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Orrorin tuganensis. Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba -- Omo, Lake Turkana, and Awash basins and the appearance of the human lineage. A much welcomed visit : Australopithecus anamensis. We are family : Kenyanthropus platyops. The first nomad? Australopithecus afarensis. Dispatching a mortal enemy : Paranthropus aethiopicus. The first tool-using scavenger? Australopithecus garhi -- The South African fossil caves sites. The animal trap : Australopithecus africanus. To live and die on the high veldt : Paranthropus robustus/crassidens -- Back to the East African Great Rift Valley and the appearance of Homo. A two leg advantage : Homo rudolfensis. The luck of the Pygmy : Homo habilis. In the shadow of man : Paranthropus boisei. When opportunity knocks : Homo ergaster -- From Africa to Asia? A handful of know-how : Homo georgicus. Eve without Adam : Homo erectus. A winter night's desperation : Homo pekinensis. An island sunset for the little people : Homo floresiensis -- Africa, Europe, and then the world. The ultimate competitor : Homo antecessor. How to grow a sugarplum tree : Homo rhodesiensis. Greed and equality : Homo heidelbergensis. Hunters and hunted : Homo neanderthalensis -- Then there was one. Homo sapiens -- Afterword / by Maeve Leakey -- Appendix 1. The search for faces of the past / by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak -- Appendix 2. Portraits of prehistory : imaging our ancestors / by Richard Milner.

Call Number

JFF 07-920

ISBN

• 0300100477 (hbk.)
• 9780300100471 (hbk.)

LCCN

2006928034

OCLC

71164001

Author

Sarmiento, Esteban E.

Title

The last human : a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans / created by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak ; text by Esteban Sarmiento, G.J. Sawyer and Richard Milner ; with contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Maeve Leakey and Ian Tattersall

Imprint

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index.

Added Author

Sawyer, G. J. (Gary J.)

Milner, Richard, 1941-

Deak, Viktor.

Tattersall, Ian.

Research Call Number

JFF 07-920