The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans /
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...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129001 |
| Shrnutí: | 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 |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940253 0520940253 1597349399 9781597349390 1282358723 9781282358720 9786612358722 6612358726 1417584947 9781417584949 0520233697 9780520233690 |