Quarry: Closing in on the Missing Link - Couverture rigide

Boaz, Noel T.

 
9780029045015: Quarry: Closing in on the Missing Link
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0029045010 ISBN 13 : 9780029045015
Editeur : The Free Press, 1993

Synopsis

In this work, leading anthropologist Noel T. Boaz describes how innovative research techniques have transformed our understanding of our earliest human ancestors. By telling the story of his own 20-year quest for the missing link in northern and eastern Africa, Boaz shows how palaeo-anthropology no longer focuses exclusively on individual fossil specimens, but increasingly on geological, faunal, and floral evidence, integrating data from many fields of inquiry into a holistic picture of human evolution. His controversial findings suggest that the drying of the Mediterranean Sea some five million years ago first set humans on their own evolutionary trajectory. Throughout the book Boaz maintains that knowledge of our origins helps to define what makes us truly human and that an "evolutionary perspective" provides a necessary context for addresing many of today's problems.

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Éditeur
The Free Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0029045010
ISBN 13 
9780029045015
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780684863788: Quarry Closing In On the Missing Link

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0684863782 ISBN 13 :  9780684863788
Editeur : Free Press, 1998
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