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Author:

Falk, Dean.

Title:

The fossil chronicles : how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution / Dean Falk.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fossil hominids.
Flores man.
Australopithecines.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human evolution--Philosophy.
Paleoanthropology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Of paleopolitics and missing links -- Taung : a fossil to rival Piltdown -- Taung's checkered past -- Sulcal skirmishes -- Once upon a hobbit -- Flo's little brain -- Sick hobbits, quarrelsome scientists -- Whence Homo floresiensis? -- Bones to pick.

ISBN:

0520266706 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520266704 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)701327245

LCCN:

2011003602

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

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

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)