Our earliest ancestors

Author(s)

• Kurtén, Björn

Bibliographic Information

Our earliest ancestors

Björn Kurtén ; translated from the Swedish by Erik J. Friis ; illustrations by Viking Nyström

Columbia University Press, c1993

Other Title

Våra äldsta förfäder

Uniform Title

Våra äldsta förfäder

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-145) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Tracing mankind's evolution from the birth of life on Earth three billion years ago to the emergence of modern human beings, this volume explains how the field of evolutionary study has been aided by research in comparative anatomy and molecular biology.

Table of Contents

• Humanity and us
• a long story, briefly told
• prosimians - types and collateral branches
• Africa - the original home?
• Micoene lady
• the fork in the road
• hominids before homo
• animals and humans
• the ape-man
• humans in the European Ice Age
• us
• the present and the future.

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Details

• NCID: BA23150607
• ISBN:
  • 0231080611
• LCCN: 93006516
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: swe
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 158 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN282
  • DC20 : 573.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Fossil man
  • LCSH : Human evolution