ISBN10: 0679747834, ISBN13: 9780679747833, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover Paperback. "Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus, a creature that lived 1.5 million years ago and is widely thought to be the missing link between apes and humans. The remains belonged to a tall, rangy adolescent male. The researchers called him "Nariokotome boy." In this immensely lively book, Alan Walker, one of the lead researchers, and his wife and fellow scientist Pat Shipman tell the story of that epochal find and reveal what it tells us about our earliest ancestors. We learn that Nariokotome boy was a highly social predator who walked upright but lacked the capacity for speech. In leading us to these conclusions, The Wisdom of the Bones also offers an engaging chronicle of the hundred-year-long search for a "missing link," a saga of folly, heroic dedication, and inspired science. "Brilliantly captures an] intellectual odyssey. . . . One of the finest examples of a practicing scientist writing for a popular audience." --Portland Oregonian "A vivid insider's perspective on the global efforts to document our own ancestry." --Richard E. Leakey "Fascinating. . . . As engaging an ...

ISBN10: 0679747834, ISBN13: 9780679747833, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Softcover in illustrated red wraps, small 8vo. x + 338pp. Index, bibliography, endnotes. VG. Moderate abrasion with touches of surface loss along upper and lower edges of wraps and spine ends. Else Fine: clean, bright wraps and spine; tight, strong binding; pages clean and unmarked.
[Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]
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ISBN10: 0679747834, ISBN13: 9780679747833, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published
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ISBN10: 0679747834, ISBN13: 9780679747833, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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ISBN10: 0679747834, ISBN13: 9780679747833, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.9
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