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The First Human

By Ann Gibbons

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The First Human

By Ann Gibbons

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
2007-04-10
Publication Date:
2007-04-10
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
140007696X
ISBN13:
9781400076963
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
378 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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