Evolution: the human story

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How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth, capable of sending spaceships to the Moon? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evidence for the earliest primates goes back an astonishing 60 million years, but it was around seven million years ago that some apes started walking…

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Title Statements

Full title :Evolution : the human story / [Alice Roberts and others].

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st American ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):DK Pub
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (256 pages) : : color illustrations, color maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780756691844, 0756691842, 9781409383307, 140938330X
oclc:ocn759397221
LC Classification:GN281
Dewey Decimal:599.938

Understanding our past / author, Michael J. Benton ; consultants, Fiona Coward, Paul O'Higgins -- Primates / author, Colin Groves ; consultant, Eric J. Sargis -- Hominins / author, Kate-Robson-Brown, with contributions by Fiona Coward ; consultant, Katerina Harvati -- Out of Africa / author, Alice Roberts ; consultant, Stephen Oppenheimer -- From hunters to farmers / author, Jane McIntosh ; consultant, Peter Bogucki.

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Anthropologie anthropology Biological Evolution Évolution Évolution (Biologie) Evolution (Biology) Hominidae Homme -- Évolution Human biology Human evolution Human geography Illustrated works Paléoanthropologie Paleoanthropology Popular works Prehistoric archaeology Social & cultural anthropology, ethnogr… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology