Origins
Subtitle: human evolution revealed
By: Douglas Palmer
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Octopus Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845334741
Subjects: Evolution; Human evolution
Description: In an exploration of human evolution, a Cambridge professor explains such questions as where human ancestors lived, what they wore and ate, and whether they spoke.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Meet the family; title: Meet the ancestors. Proconsul africanus ; Dryopithecus ; Sahelanthropus tchadensis ; Ardipithecus ramidus ; Australopithecus afarensis ; Australopithecus africanus ; Paranthropus robustus ; Homo habilis ; Homo erectus, Homo ergaster ; Homo floresiensis ; Homo heidelbergensis ; Homo neanderthalensis ; Homo sapiens; title: The human odyssey. The great African dispersal : first steps ; Tools and culture ; Into Australasia ; The origins of art ; The move into Europe ; Tools become weapons ; The peopling of the Americas ; The changing climate.