"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Kingdon, Jonathan 1935- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton [u.a.] Princeton Univ. Press 2003
Schlagworte:	Bipédie - Origines Evolutietheorie Homme - Origines Homme - Évolution Homme fossile Mensachtigen Staan Bipedalism > Origin Evolution > Africa Fossil hominids Hominidae > Africa Human beings > Origin Human evolution Locomotion > Africa Posture > Africa Afrika
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Zusammenfassung:	"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XX, 396 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0691050864