"Splendid and important .... Scientifically rigorous and written
with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale ...
[Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued
with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the
fieldworker, and carries great authority."-Tim Flannery, The New
York Review of Books In this "fascinating forensic inquiry into
human origins" (Kirkus STARRED Review), a renowned paleontologist
takes readers behind-the-scenes of one of the most groundbreaking
archaeological digs in recent history. Somewhere west of
Munich,paleontologist Madelaine Boehme and her colleagues dig for
clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond
anything they ever imagined: the twelve-million-year-old bones of
Danuvius guggenmosi make headlines around the world. This ancient
ape defies prevailing theories of human history-his skeletal
adaptations suggest a new common ancestor between apes and humans,
one that dwelled in Europe, not Africa. Might the great apes that
traveled from Africa to Europe before Danuvius's time be the key to
understanding our own origins? All this and more is explored in
Ancient Bones. Using her expertise as a paleoclimatologist and
paleontologist, Boehme pieces together an awe-inspiring picture of
great apes that crossed land bridges from Africa to Europe millions
of years ago, evolving in response to the challenging conditions
they found. She also takes us behind the scenes of her research,
introducing us to former theories of human evolution (complete with
helpful maps and diagrams), and walks us through musty museum
overflow storage where she finds forgotten fossils with yellowed
labels, before taking us along to the momentous dig where she and
the team unearthed Danuvius guggenmosi himself-and the incredible
reverberations his discovery caused around the world. Praise for
Ancient Bones: "Readable and thought-provoking. Madelaine Boehme is
an iconoclast whose fossil discoveries have challenged
long-standing ideas on the origins of the ancestors of apes and
humans."-Steve Brusatte, New York Times-bestselling author of The
Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs "An inherently fascinating,
impressively informative, and exceptionally thought-provoking
read."-Midwest Book Review "An impressive introduction to the
burgeoning recalibration of paleoanthropology."-Kirkus
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