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

Leakey, Richard E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385467923 ISBN 13 : 9780385467926

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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À propos 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0385467923
• ISBN 13: 9780385467926
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 430
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible