04652nam 2201069 a 450 991078132290332120230725050453.01-283-27819-797866132781970-520-94964-110.1525/9780520949645(CKB)2550000000039362(EBL)730757(OCoLC)747412136(SSID)ssj0000536801(PQKBManifestationID)11371237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536801(PQKBWorkID)10565040(PQKB)10771751(MiAaPQ)EBC730757(DE-B1597)518657(DE-B1597)9780520949645(Au-PeEL)EBL730757(CaPaEBR)ebr10483580(CaONFJC)MIL327819(EXLCZ)99255000000003936220110128d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fossil chronicles[electronic resource] how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution /Dean FalkBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26670-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Of Paleopolitics and Missing Links -- Two. Taung: A Fossil to Rival Piltdown -- Three. Taung's Checkered Past -- Four. Sulcal Skirmishes -- Five. Once upon a Hobbit -- Six. Flo's Little Brain -- Seven. Sick Hobbits, Quarrelsome Scientists -- Eight. Whence Homo floresiensis? -- Nine. Bones to Pick -- Notes -- Glossary of Neuroanatomical Terms -- References -- IndexTwo discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider's account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. The first is the Taung child, a two-million-year-old skull from South Africa that led anatomist Raymond Dart to argue that this creature had walked upright and that Africa held the key to the fossil ancestry of our species. The second find consisted of the partial skeleton of a three-and-a-half-foot-tall woman, nicknamed Hobbit, from Flores Island, Indonesia. She is thought by scientists to belong to a new, recently extinct species of human, but her story is still unfolding. Falk, who has studied the brain casts of both Taung and Hobbit, reveals new evidence crucial to interpreting both discoveries and proposes surprising connections between this pair of extraordinary specimens.Fossil hominidsFlores manAustralopithecinesHuman remains (Archaeology)Human evolutionPhilosophyPaleoanthropologyafrican anthropology.ancient human species.anthropology.archeologia.australopithecus africanus.biological anthropology.bones evolution.brain development.evolution and religion.evolution.extinct species.first humans.fossil discoveries.historical africa.historical skulls.history of man.history of science.history.hobbit.hominins.human brain evolution.human evolution.human fossils.human history.human relatives.paleoanthropology.paleontology.physical anthropology books.primates.skeletons.taung child.Fossil hominids.Flores man.Australopithecines.Human remains (Archaeology)Human evolutionPhilosophy.Paleoanthropology.599.93/8Falk Dean612070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781322903321The fossil chronicles3803025UNINA