in search of human origins Reader, John. creator text Oxford Oxford University Press c2011 [Enlarged and updated ed.] monographic

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xvii, 538 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm. Time and place -- The meaning of fossils -- Nothing so rare -- Neanderthal man (1857) -- Neanderthals and modern humans -- Java man (1891) -- Piltdown man (1912) -- Australopithecus africanus (1925) -- Peking man (1926) -- Australopithecus substantiated (1936) -- Zinjanthropus boisei (1959) -- Tools -- Homo habilis (1964) -- 1470 (1972) and the oldest man -- Australopithecus afarensis (1978) -- Footprints -- Ardipithecus ramidus (1994 & 2009). John Reader ; [foreword by Andrew Hill]. Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Fossil hominids Paleoanthropology History Anthropology, Prehistoric 9780199276851(hbk.) 20230123122112.0