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Ancestral Passions, The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
Virginia Morell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A biography of the Leakey family, documenting their discoveries and their vast contributions to the field of paleontology. The Leakeys have been instrumental in tracing human origins to East Africa.
(EAF76, $28.95) |
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Becoming Human, Evolution and Human Uniqueness
Ian Tattersall
ARCHAEOLOGY
A wide-ranging, thought-provoking tour of human origins and culture from the point of view of anthropology.
(NAT45, $14.00) |
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Bones of Contention, Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
Roger Lewin
NATURAL HISTORY
Lewin, a science writer who has worked with Richard Leakey, offers an engaging account of the issues, debates and personalities in paleoanthropology.
(ATP05, $27.50) |
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Evolution, The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Edward Larson
NATURAL HISTORY
A clearheaded, engrossing brief history of ideas about evolution from the 18th century to the present by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
(NAT64, $14.95) |
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Extinct Humans
Ian Tattersall
Jeffrey Schwartz
ARCHAEOLOGY
An illustrated overview of the origin of our species, rewarding for both the scholar and interested general reader, which explores the history of our species in this masterly synthesis of archaeological discovery.
(NAT46, $30.00) |
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The Fossil Trail, How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution
Ian Tattersall
SCIENCE
A balanced, thought-provoking survey of the physical evidence for human evolution.
(ATP08, $19.95) |
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From Lucy to Language
Donald Johanson
Blake Edgar
ARCHAEOLOGY
A strikingly illustrated survey of human evolution, featuring 200 stunning color photographs of significant hominid fossils.
(EAF85, $65.00) |
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The Human Career, Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Richard G. Klein
REFERENCE
An overview of human evolution intended as a sourcebook and text for undergraduate courses in paleoanthrolopology.
(AFR74, $55.00) |
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Human Origins, What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves
Rob Desalle
Ian Tattersall
SCIENCE
The companion book by the co-curators of the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
(ATP19, $29.95) |
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In the Footsteps of Eve, The Mystery of Human Origins
Lee R. Berger
SCIENCE
Berger challenges the orthodoxy on a critical point of debate in the field of paleoanthropology.
(ATP10, $14.00) |
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Investigating Olduvai, Archaeology of Human Origins
Jeanne Septis
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A CD-Rom created for University students to explore the FLK-Zinj fossil site at Olduvai, with separate sections for data, analysis and investigation.
(EAF90, $39.95) |
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The Last Human, A Guide to Twenty Species of Extinct Humans
Ian Tattersall
Kenneth Mowbray
Esteban Sarmiento
G.J. Sawyer
Victor Deak
Donald Johanson
Meave Leakey
NATURAL HISTORY
This illustrated overview of human ancestry from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens is published as a companion to the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
(ATP18, $45.00) |
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Lucy's Legacy, Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
Alison Jolly
SCIENCE
A well-informed, popular account of what makes us human.
(AFR104, $18.95) |
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Lucy, The Beginnings of Humankind
Maitland Armstrong Edey
Donald Johanson
ARCHAEOLOGY
The original, influential account of the thrilling discovery of Lucy in 1974 and the impact of the discovery on ideas about human evolution.
(ATP06, $17.00) |
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The Monkey in the Mirror, Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
Ian Tattersall
SCIENCE
A lively, literate collection of essays on evolution, evolutionary change and the diversity of hominids.
(ATP11, $14.00) |
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No Bone Unturned, The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons
Jeff Benedict
ARCHAEOLOGY
A lively account of the controversy surrounding Kennewick Man.
(SCI73, $13.95) |
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Origins Reconsidered, In Search of What Makes Us Human
Richard Leakey
Roger Lewin
SCIENCE
A personal account of hominid evolution, looking back at the evidence and conclusions from the original 1977 book "Origins," augmented with a thoughtful consideration of what makes us human.
(ATP07, $17.95) |
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Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe
Barry W Cunliffe
HISTORY
Dozens of experts contributed essays to this illustrated account of the sweep of early human history in Europe from the Paleolithic to the fall of the Roman Empire, featuring 300 well-integrated maps, photographs and site plans.
(EUR32, $31.95) |
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This classic portrait of East Africa, enthralling in its detail on nature and daily life, takes in the Maasai, Ngorongoro, the Kenyan highlands and Mathiessen's field trips, safaris and adventures in the Serengeti.
(EAF27, $17.00) |
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The Wisdom of the Bones, In Search of Human Origins
Alan Walker
Pat Shipman
SCIENCE
A dramatic account of the discovery, in 1984, and significance of a remarkably intact skeleton of Homo erectus in northern Kenya.
(ATP09, $15.00) |
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The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE
Ian Tattersall
ARCHAEOLOGY
In this lively and readable introduction, Tattersall thoroughly examines both the fossil and archeological records to trace human evolution from the beginnings of the family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution.
(WLD133, $60.00) |
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