Can I read The First Human : the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors on EtoBox?

The First Human : the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The First Human : the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors about?

In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind'Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the "missing link"'the fossil of the earliest human ancestor'Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups'one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut'who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale. From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more... Abstract: In this dynamic account, award-winning science wr

Who reads The First Human : the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors?

Author

Ann Gibbons

Publisher

Anchor Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307279828

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Nature, Stem

Rating

3.93 / 5 (420 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14