Shaping humanity : how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins /: how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Gurche.
• Other Names: Gurche, John
• Contents: Beginnings : Sahelanthropus tchadensis (6 to 7 million years ago) -- Walkers and climbers : Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago) -- The impossible discovery : Australopithecus africanus (3.3 to 2. 1 million years ago) -- The paradoxical specialist : Paranthropus boisei (2.3. to 1.0 million years ago) -- Interlude: Transitional hominins and the origin of Homo -- The traveler : Homo erectus (1.8 to 0.1 million years ago) -- A symbolic animal : Homo heidelbergensis (0.7 to 0.2 million years ago) -- The other : Homo neanderthalensis (0.25 to 0.027 million years ago) -- The unlikely survivor : Homo floresiensis (0.095 to 0.017 million years ago) -- Linked : Homo sapiens (0.2 million years ago --?) -- Endings.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 345 pages)
• Subjects: 569.9; Fossil hominids; Human beings -- Origin; Human evolution; Homme fossile; Homme -- Origines; Homme -- Évolution; NATURE -- Fossils; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology; Fossil hominids; Human beings -- Origin; Human evolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300185331; 0300185332; 1306370515; 9781306370516; 0300182023; 9780300182026
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.