TY  - GEN
T1  - Lowly origin : where, when, and why our ancestors first stood up
A1  - Kingdon, Jonathan
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1036666866
AB  - Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many of the things that apes cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. Titled after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of us learned about in school. Jonathan Kingdon uses the very latest findings from ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to build a new and up-to-date account of how four-legged apes became two-legged hominins. He describes what it took to get up onto two legs as well as the protracted consequences of that step--some of which led straight to modern humans and others to very different bipeds. This allows him to make sense of recently unearthed evidence suggesting that no fewer than twenty species of humans and hominins have lived and become extinct. Following the evolution of two-legged creatures from our earliest lowly forebears to the present, Kingdon concludes with future options for the last surviving biped. A major new narrative of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the best available account of what it meant--and what it means--to walk on two feet.
OP  - 396
CN  - GN282 .K54 2003
SN  - 0691223440
SN  - 9780691223445
SN  - 0691050864
KW  - Fossil hominids.
KW  - Bipedalism : Origin.
KW  - Human beings : Origin.
KW  - Human evolution.
KW  - Homme fossile.
KW  - Bipédie : Origines.
KW  - Êtres humains : Origines.
KW  - Êtres humains : Évolution.
KW  - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Human beings : Origin
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Achulean culture.
KW  - Adapids.
KW  - African Heidelbergs.
KW  - Banda Strandlopers.
KW  - Biblical symbolism.
KW  - Broken Hill fossil.
KW  - Catopithecus browni.
KW  - Eastern Rift.
KW  - Ethiopian Dome.
KW  - Flores Landing.
KW  - Gondwana.
KW  - Hadrocodium.
KW  - Hammer, Michael.
KW  - Haplorhini.
KW  - Highvelt.
KW  - Hofmeyr skull.
KW  - Homo antecessor.
KW  - Indian Heidelberg.
KW  - Java man.
KW  - Juba River.
KW  - Khoisan.
KW  - Kiwengoma forest.
KW  - Leakey, Meave.
KW  - Linnaeus.
KW  - Mammaliform.
KW  - agriculture.
KW  - angiosperm.
KW  - antelopes.
KW  - arboreal mammals.
KW  - autorewarding skills.
KW  - brain-language interaction.
KW  - cervical nerves.
KW  - community of descent.
KW  - containers.
KW  - dambos.
KW  - depigmentation.
KW  - dermicidin.
KW  - distant ambit.
KW  - ecological islands.
KW  - edaphic grasslands.
KW  - enhanced adaptation.
KW  - evolution, mammal.
KW  - fovea.
KW  - future-eaters.
KW  - genocide.
KW  - gestures.
KW  - grasslands.
KW  - ground ape.
KW  - hand-eye coordination.
KW  - horticulture.
KW  - humid foci.
KW  - keystone species.
KW  - marine culture.
KW  - metacarpals.
KW  - middlebrows.
KW  - mobbing behavior.
ER  -