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96 pages : 27 cm "Traces past and present theories of human origins and evolution and discusses fossil discoveries and their significance."--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-91) and index Foreword -- Introduction -- Early explanations. Biblical creation -- anatomical studies -- Seventeenth-century science -- Eighteenth-century science -- The theory of human evolution -- Finding the first fossil. The Neandertal fossils -- Determining the age of fossils -- Developing an ancestral tree -- The missing link. Searching for the missing link -- Dubois makes a discovery -- Java man -- Peking man -- The Piltdown fraud -- The leakey bush. The single-species theory -- The Taung baby fossil -- Revising the ancestral tree -- Leakey finds oldest human fossil -- Fossil dating techniques improve -- The toolmaker. Homo habilis -- The discovery of 1470 -- Human origins theories change -- The oldest human ancestor. Johanson discovers Lucy -- The first family -- Leakey's laetoli fossils -- A new hominid species and a new theory -- The knowledge increases. Using technology to examine fossils -- Turkana boy -- Out-of-Africa theory -- Multiregional theory -- Archaic humans --

Author

Lois Warburton

Publisher

San Diego, CA: Lucent Books

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560062219

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Literary Fiction