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The Fossil Chronicles - How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution (Paperback)
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The Fossil Chronicles - How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution (Paperback)
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Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in
2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean
Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this
fast-paced insiderOCOs account of these discoveries, the
behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and
analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they
generated. The first is the Taung child, a two-million-year-old
skull from South Africa that led anatomist Raymond Dart to argue
that this creature had walked upright and that Africa held the key
to the fossil ancestry of our species. The second find consisted of
the partial skeleton of a three-and-a-half-foot-tall woman,
nicknamed Hobbit, from Flores Island, Indonesia. She is thought by
scientists to belong to a new, recently extinct species of human,
but her story is still unfolding. Falk, who has studied the brain
casts of both Taung and Hobbit, reveals new evidence crucial to
interpreting both discoveries and proposes surprising connections
between this pair of extraordinary specimens.
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