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Author:

Reader, John.

Title:

Missing links : in search of human origins / John Reader ; [foreword by Andrew Hill].

Edition:

[Enlarged and updated ed.]

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xvii, 538 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Fossil hominids.
Paleoanthropology--History.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.

Notes:

Previous eds. published as: Missing links : the hunt for earliest man. Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-523) and index.

Contents:

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).

ISBN:

0199276854
9780199276851

OCLC:

(OCoLC)707267298

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)