Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0195061012 9780195061017 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195061012, ISBN13: 9780195061017, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, New York] Softcover One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints captured in stone-the earliest recorded steps of out far-off human ancestors, some three million years old. Today we can see a recreation of the making of the Laetoli footprints at the American Museum of Natural History, in a stunning diorama which depicts two of our human forebears walking side by side through a snowy landscape of volcanic ash. But how do we know what these three-million-year-old relatives looked like? How have we reconstructed the eons-long journey from our first ancient steps to where we stand today? In short, how do we know what we think we know about human evolution. In The Fossil Trail, Ian Tattersall, the head of the Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us on a sweeping tour of the study of human evolution, offering a colourful history of fossil discoveries and a revealing insider's look at how these finds have been interpreted -and misinterpreted-through time. All the major figures and discoveries are here. We meet Lamark and Cuvier and Darwin (we learn that Darwin's theory of evolution, though a bombshell, was very congenial to a ...

ISBN10: 0195061012, ISBN13: 9780195061017, [publisher: Oxford University] Softcover 1996. Oxford University. Softback. Book - VG+. 9.5x6.5. 276pp. Some b/w line illus.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]

Oxford University Press, USA 1995 Hard cover 1996. Oxford University. Softback. Book-VG+. 9.5x6.5. 276pp. Some b/w line illus.