Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human - Couverture rigide

Leakey, Richard; Lewin, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385412649 ISBN 13 : 9780385412643

Editeur : Doubleday, 1992

Synopsis

374 pages - jaquette en bon état - ouvrage en anglais - quelques planches en noir et blanc. Bon état Couv. convenable Intérieur frais In-8 Carré Relié Ouvrage en anglais.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Leakey is the world’s most famous living paleoanthropologist. He resigned from his position as chairman of the National Museums of Kenya when Kenya’s president, Daniel arap Moi appointed him to head the Kenya Wildlife Service. His parents were the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey. His half-brother is the leading plant scientist, Colin Leakey. 

Roger Lewin, PhD, is a biochemist, the former deputy editor of the British magazine New Scientist, and the author of Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle, as well as many other highly praised books on biology such as Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos and Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0385412649
• ISBN 13: 9780385412643
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1