The human story
Subtitle: where we come from and how we evolved
By: Charles Lockwood ; foreword by Chris Stringer
Contributors: Natural History Museum (London, England)
Publisher: Natural History Museum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780565092146
Subjects: Human evolution; Fossil hominids
Description: "The Human Story is a guide to human ancestors, from the earliest hominins dating back 6 to 7 million years through to our own species, Homo sapiens." "Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion of species' names in the record of human evolution, due both to new discoveries and to a growing understanding of the diversity that existed in the past. Drawing on this new information, The Human Story demystifies the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to human origins." "Applying his considerable expertise and practical experience, Charles Lockwood describes the main sites, the individual fossils, the key discoveries and the basic facts about each species - what it looked like, what it ate, how and when it lived, as well as how we know all this."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 108) and index.
Table of contents: title: Earliest Hominins; title: Australopithecus; title: Paranthropus; title: Early Homo; title: Later Homo.