The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler.

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Beard, K. Christopher

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520940253
0520940253
1597349399
9781597349390
1282358723
9781282358720
9786612358722
6612358726
1417584947
9781417584949

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hunt for the dawn monkey.DDC classification:

569/.8 22

LOC classification:

QE882.P7 B35 2004eb

NLM classification:

2005 B-707
QL 737.P9

Other classification:

WH 8908

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Contents:

Missing links and dawn monkeys -- Toward Egypt's sacred bull -- A gem from the Willwood -- The forest in the Sahara -- Received wisdom -- The birth of a ghost lineage -- Initial hints from deep time -- Ghost busters -- Resurrecting the ghost -- Into the African melting pot -- Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia.

Summary: Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.

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Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga.

English.

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