Wisdom of the Bones In Search of Human Origins

Name: Wisdom of the Bones In Search of Human Origins
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ISBN: 9780679747833

ISBN-10: 0679747834

ISBN-13: 9780679747833

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Authors: Alan Walker, Pat Shipman

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"Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus, a creature that lived 1.5 million years ago and is widely thought to be the missing link between apes and humans. The remains belonged to a tall, rangy adolescent male. The researchers called him "Nariokotome boy." In this immensely lively book, Alan Walker, one of the lead researchers, and his wife and fellow scientist Pat Shipman tell the story of that epochal find and reveal what it tells us about…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.93" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc Award for The Wisdom of the Bones.

Pat Shipman is a professor of anthropology at Penn State University. Coauthor of the award-winning The Ape in the Tree, she writes for American Scientist and lives in Moncure, North Carolina.