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Shaping humanity : how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins
- Title
- Shaping humanity : how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins / John Gurche.
- Author
- Gurche, John
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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- Description
- xvi, 345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-337) and index.
- Contents
- Beginnings : Sahelanthropus tchadensis (6 to 7 million years ago) -- Walkers and climbers : Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago) -- The impossible discovery : Australopithecus africanus (3.3 to 2. 1 million years ago) -- The paradoxical specialist : Paranthropus boisei (2.3. to 1.0 million years ago) -- Interlude: Transitional hominins and the origin of Homo -- The traveler : Homo erectus (1.8 to 0.1 million years ago) -- A symbolic animal : Homo heidelbergensis (0.7 to 0.2 million years ago) -- The other : Homo neanderthalensis (0.25 to 0.027 million years ago) -- The unlikely survivor : Homo floresiensis (0.095 to 0.017 million years ago) -- Linked : Homo sapiens (0.2 million years ago -- ?) -- Endings.
- ISBN
- 9780300182026 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0300182023 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013016699
- 40022905977
- OCLC
- 843025781
- ocn843025781
- SCSB-5717005
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries