The real planet of the apes : a new story of human origins
Begun, David R.2018
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Place reservation for The real planet of the apes : a new story of human origins"Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world’s leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape species. Begun draws on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record, as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions, to offer a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans. He tells the story of how one of the earliest members of our evolutionary group evolved from lemur-like monkeys in the primeval forests of Africa. Begun then vividly describes how, over the next ten million years, these hominoids expanded into Europe and Asia and evolved climbing and hanging adaptations, longer maturation times, and larger brains. As the climate deteriorated in Europe, these apes either died out or migrated south, reinvading the African continent and giving rise to the lineages of African great apes, and, ultimately, humans. Presenting startling new insights, The Real Planet of the Apes fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins."--Page [4] 0f cover.
Main title:
The real planet of the apes : a new story of human origins / by David R. Begun.
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Imprint:
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018.©2016
Collation:
x, 246 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-238) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The early years -- Out of Africa : Afropithecus and friends -- Out in the world : early apes spread in Europe -- Home again : the new Afro-European apes -- The big East-West divide -- East side story : our cousins Sivapithecus and the orangutans -- West side story : the African apes of Europe -- The descendants of Dryopithecus -- Back to Africa again.
ISBN:
9780691182803 (paperback)
Dewey class:
599.93
Language:
English
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BRN:
364754
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 599.93 REA | Available |
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