| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Missing links and dawn monkeys -- Toward Egypt's sacred bull -- A gem from the Willwood -- The forest in the Sahara -- Received wisdom -- The birth of a ghost lineage -- Initial hints from deep time -- Ghost busters -- Resurrecting the ghost -- Into the African melting pot -- Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia. |
| Summary |
Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, "the dawn of recent life," Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the first anthropoids--the diverse and successful group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans--evolved millions of years earlier than was previously suspected and emerged in Asia rather than Africa. In The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, Beard chronicles the saga. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Primates, Fossil.
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Primates, Fossil. |
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Monkeys, Fossil.
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Monkeys, Fossil. |
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Fossil hominids.
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Fossil hominids. |
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Human beings -- Origin.
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Human beings -- Origin. |
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Paleoanthropology.
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Paleoanthropology. |
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Primates. |
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Evolution. |
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Paleontology. |
| Indexed Term |
Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beard, K. Christopher. Hunt for the dawn monkey. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520233697 (DLC) 2004001403 (OCoLC)54279774 |
| ISBN |
9780520940253 (electronic book) |
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0520940253 (electronic book) |
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1597349399 (electronic book) |
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9781597349390 (electronic book) |
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0520233697 |
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9780520233690 |
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