LEADER 04113nam 22008294a 450 001 9910974775903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612358722 010 $a9781282358720 010 $a1282358723 010 $a9781417584949 010 $a1417584947 010 $a9780520940253 010 $a0520940253 010 $a9781597349390 010 $a1597349399 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520940253 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030697 035 $a(EBL)227334 035 $a(OCoLC)58728507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175302 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177641 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175302 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188444 035 $a(PQKB)10074877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227334 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30369 035 $a(DE-B1597)518942 035 $a(OCoLC)816343084 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520940253 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227334 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235872 035 $a(Perlego)2318997 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030697 100 $a20040122d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe hunt for the dawn monkey $eunearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /$fChris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780520249868 311 0 $a0520249860 311 0 $a9780520233690 311 0 $a0520233697 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. 606 $aPrimates, Fossil 606 $aMonkeys, Fossil 606 $aFossil hominids 606 $aHuman beings$xOrigin 606 $aPaleoanthropology 615 0$aPrimates, Fossil. 615 0$aMonkeys, Fossil. 615 0$aFossil hominids. 615 0$aHuman beings$xOrigin. 615 0$aPaleoanthropology. 676 $a569/.8 700 $aBeard$b K. Christopher$01812070 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974775903321 996 $aThe hunt for the dawn monkey$94364335 997 $aUNINA