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Extinct Humans

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ISBN-10: 0813339189

ISBN-13: 9780813339184

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey Schwartz

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Publication date: 12/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980

Preface
The Path to Human Evolution
In the Beginning
In and Out of the Dark Ages
Putting Humans into Evolution and Fossils into Human Evolution
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Exempting Humans from Natural Selection
Defining Homo
Blumenbach's Legacy
Evolution Today
Early Bipeds: African Origins
Forever Australopithecus
The New Era
Not Another Australopith! And Another?
The Age of Discovery
The Making of the Hominid
Arboreal Bipeds?
Earlier Ancestors?
What to Do with Australopiths?
The Mysterious Homo habilis
Olduvai
East Turkana
The Transvaal
Back to Olduvai
Unraveling Homo habilis
The Influence of Climate
Early Toolmakers
The Emergence of the Modern Body
East Side Story
When East Meets Far East
Another East African Homo erectus?
A Glimpse at the Life History of the Nariokotome Youth
Will the Real Homo erectus Please Stand Up?
Lifestyles
Homo ergaster and Homo erectus: The Great Diaspora
Java Man
Peking Man
The Cave of Zhoukoudian
New Discoveries
Surprise Dates
Ngandong Revisited
The Invasion of Europe
Multiple Departures?
Neanderthals and Human Extinctions
The Neanderthals
Neanderthal Anatomy
The Ice Age Environment in Europe and Western Asia
Neanderthal Technology
Neanderthal Lifestyles
Neanderthal Economies
Neanderthal Burial and Symbolic Behaviors
Neanderthal Extinction
And Then there Was One
Out of Africa
African Eve
The Levant
The First Modern Europeans
Becoming Human
Further Reading
Index