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The fossil chronicles [[electronic resource] ] : how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution / / Dean Falk



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Autore: Falk Dean Visualizza persona
Titolo: The fossil chronicles [[electronic resource] ] : how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution / / Dean Falk Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina: 599.93/8
Soggetto topico: Fossil hominids
Flores man
Australopithecines
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human evolution - Philosophy
Paleoanthropology
Soggetto non controllato: african 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Two 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The fossil chronicles  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27819-7
9786613278197
0-520-94964-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814308703321
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