04113nam 22008294a 450 991097477590332120200520144314.097866123587229781282358720128235872397814175849491417584947978052094025305209402539781597349390159734939910.1525/9780520940253(CKB)1000000000030697(EBL)227334(OCoLC)58728507(SSID)ssj0000175302(PQKBManifestationID)11177641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175302(PQKBWorkID)10188444(PQKB)10074877(MiAaPQ)EBC227334(MdBmJHUP)muse30369(DE-B1597)518942(OCoLC)816343084(DE-B1597)9780520940253(Au-PeEL)EBL227334(CaPaEBR)ebr10075631(CaONFJC)MIL235872(Perlego)2318997(EXLCZ)99100000000003069720040122d2004 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe hunt for the dawn monkey unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20041 online resource (366 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520249868 0520249860 9780520233690 0520233697 Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Preface --1. Missing Links and Dawn Monkeys --2. Toward Egypt's Sacred Bull --3. A Gem from the Willwood --4. The Forest in the Sahara --5. Received Wisdom --6. The Birth of a Ghost Lineage --7. Initial Hints from Deep Time --8. Ghost Busters --9. Resurrecting the Ghost --10. Into the African Melting Pot --11. Paleoanthropology and Pithecophobia --Notes --References Cited --IndexTaking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids-the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans-evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work of Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, to the latest discoveries in Asia, Africa, and North America's Rocky Mountains. Against this historical backdrop, he weaves the story of how his own expeditions have unearthed crucial fossils-including the controversial primate Eosimias-that support his compelling new vision of anthropoid evolution. The only book written for a wide audience that explores this remote phase of our own evolutionary history, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey adds a fascinating new chapter to our understanding of humanity's relationship to the rest of life on earth.Primates, FossilMonkeys, FossilFossil hominidsHuman beingsOriginPaleoanthropologyPrimates, Fossil.Monkeys, Fossil.Fossil hominids.Human beingsOrigin.Paleoanthropology.569/.8Beard K. Christopher1812070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974775903321The hunt for the dawn monkey4364335UNINA