The First Human - The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Anchor Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	April 2007
Authors:	Ann Gibbons
Dimensions:	202 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-7696-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4000-7696-X
Barcode:	9781400076963

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