The last human : a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans
| 1. Verfasser: |
Sarmiento, Esteban E.
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Deak, Viktor
Milner, Richard, 1941- Sawyer, G. J. Tattersall, Ian |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 28 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Afrika Asia |
| Online Zugang: |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Foreword /
- by Donald C. Johanson
- We were not alone. Introduction /
- by Ian Tattersall
- The earliest African hominids.
- Morning encounters.
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
- Orrorin tugenensis.
- Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba
- Omo, Lake Turkana, and Awash basins and the appearance of the human lineage.
- A much welcomed visit : Australopithecus anamensis.
- We are family : Kenyanthropus platyops.
- The first nomad? Australopithecus afarensis.
- Dispatching a mortal enemy : Paranthropus aethiopicus.
- The first tool-using scavenger? Australopithecus garhi
- The South African fossil caves sites.
- The animal trap : Australopithecus africanus.
- To live and die on the high veldt : Paranthropus robustus/crassidens
- Back to the East African Great Rift Valley and the appearance of Homo.
- A two leg advantage : Homo rudolfensis.
- The luck of the Pygmy : Homo habilis.
- In the shadow of man : Paranthropus boisei.
- When opportunity knocks : Homo ergaster
- From Africa to Asia?
- A handful of know-how : Homo georgicus.
- Eve without Adam : Homo erectus.
- A winter night's desperation : Homo pekinensis.
- An island sunset for the little people : Homo floresiensis
- Africa, Europe, and then the world.
- The ultimate competitor : Homo antecessor.
- How to grow a sugarplum tree : Homo rhodesiensis.
- Greed and equality : Homo heidelbergensis.
- Hunters and hunted : Homo neanderthalensis
- Then there was one.
- Homo sapiens
- Afterword /
- by Maeve Leakey
- Appendix 1.
- The search for faces of the past /
- by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak
- Appendix 2.
- Portraits of prehistory : imaging our ancestors /
- by Richard Milner.
