Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves Tapa blanda - 2012

Texas A&M University Press, 2012-02-27. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilised bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans-bipedal apes, actually-first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviourally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World. Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries-Mary Leakey's Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson's Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickford's Millennium Man, to name just a few-experts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that… Leer más

Texas A & M Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 216 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.50 inches.

Texas A&M University Press, 2012-02-27. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.