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Origins, human evolution revealed, Douglas Palmer

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Origins, human evolution revealed, Douglas Palmer

Language

eng

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Origins

Oclc number

606759669

Responsibility statement

Douglas Palmer

Sub title

human evolution revealed

Summary

In an exploration of human evolution, a Cambridge professor explains such questions as where human ancestors lived, what they wore and ate, and whether they spoke

Table Of Contents

Meet the family -- Meet the ancestors. Proconsul africanus ; Dryopithecus ; Sahelanthropus tchadensis ; Ardipithecus ramidus ; Australopithecus afarensis ; Australopithecus africanus ; Paranthropus robustus ; Homo habilis ; Homo erectus, Homo ergaster ; Homo floresiensis ; Homo heidelbergensis ; Homo neanderthalensis ; Homo sapiens -- The human odyssey. The great African dispersal : first steps ; Tools and culture ; Into Australasia ; The origins of art ; The move into Europe ; Tools become weapons ; The peopling of the Americas ; The changing climate

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