Shaping humanity : how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins / John Gurche.
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our a...
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings : Sahelanthropus tchadensis (6 to 7 million years ago)
- Walkers and climbers : Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago)
- The impossible discovery : Australopithecus africanus (3.3 to 2. 1 million years ago)
- The paradoxical specialist : Paranthropus boisei (2.3. to 1.0 million years ago)
- Interlude: Transitional hominins and the origin of Homo
- The traveler : Homo erectus (1.8 to 0.1 million years ago)
- A symbolic animal : Homo heidelbergensis (0.7 to 0.2 million years ago)
- The other : Homo neanderthalensis (0.25 to 0.027 million years ago)
- The unlikely survivor : Homo floresiensis (0.095 to 0.017 million years ago)
- Linked : Homo sapiens (0.2 million years ago
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- Endings.