The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
In the 21st century, a race into the distant past has become front-page news. As rival teams of paleontologists compete to establish the missing link between hominids and apes, the dawn of humankind has been pushed farther back in time. Few science journalists know this story better than Ann...
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In the 21st century, a race into the distant past has become front-page news. As rival teams of paleontologists compete to establish the missing link between hominids and apes, the dawn of humankind has been pushed farther back in time. Few science journalists know this story better than Ann Gibbons, who has been covering the story for Science magazine for more than a decade. In The First Human, she describes this fierce struggle for primacy among four maverick scientists and their fossil-hunting associates.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9781400076963
Publish date: 10-04-2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Anthropology,
Archeology,
Evolution,
Prehistory
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