Summary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRPyne, Lydia V.
Summary: "A science historian describes seven famous ancestral fossils that have become known around the world, including the three-foot tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba and Lucy,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 PYNTattersall, Ian.
Summary: One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints captured in stone - the earliest recorded steps of our far-off human ancestors, some three million years old. Today we can see a recreation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.2 TATSummary: Examines the discovery of strange and unknown miniature hominid fossil (Homo floresiensis) remains on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Looks at the scientific debate over whether these creatures, nicknamed "hobbits," are a type of dwarf race of humans, possibly suffering from a disease such as microcephaly, or an entirely new species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALIWalter, Chip.
Summary: Seeks to explain why homo sapiens survived while other hominids did not, drawing on recent scientific discoveries and examining the survival value of such factors as premature births, long childhoods, and an extremely social nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.9 WALPattison, Kermit
Summary: "Fossil Men is the riveting science-adventure story of the brilliant team who discovered the "Ardi" skeleton, a human more than a million years older than the famous Lucy, and their 20-year quest to redefine our understanding of human evolution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.9 PATTattersall, Ian
Summary: Argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career-- from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman-- Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 TATOlson, John (John B.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLSTrinkaus, Erik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993