num_pages: 256
description: 'Garniss lend me your knife for a second will you' I whispered. So begins Java Man the inside story of how one discoverya human skull found on the island of Javaby two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate.Originally published by Scribner2000 ISBN: 0-684-80000-4
language: English
title: Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution
publisher: University of Chicago Press