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200 14$aThe hunt for the dawn monkey$b[electronic resource] $eunearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /$fChris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (366 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$t1. Missing Links and Dawn Monkeys --$t2. Toward Egypt's Sacred Bull --$t3. A Gem from the Willwood --$t4. The Forest in the Sahara --$t5. Received Wisdom --$t6. The Birth of a Ghost Lineage --$t7. Initial Hints from Deep Time --$t8. Ghost Busters --$t9. Resurrecting the Ghost --$t10. Into the African Melting Pot --$t11. Paleoanthropology and Pithecophobia --$tNotes --$tReferences Cited --$tIndex
330   $aTaking 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.
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