The Complete World of Human Evolution

 Revisions include spectacular discoveries and cutting-edge research:
• New descriptions of the famous ‘Ardi’ skeleton (Ardipithecus ramidus) shed light on the earliest known human ancestor candidates
• The newly discovered species Australopithecus sediba could finally prove that the australopithecines were ancestral to humans
• Fresh work on the dwarf-human remains from Indonesia confirms that Homo floresiensis – the ‘Hobbit’ – was a separate human-like species
• New DNA research shows that modern humans living outside Africa have traces of Neanderthal genetic heritage
• New discoveries from a Siberian cave suggest another, as yet unnamed human species lived alongside Neanderthals and modern humans.
Chris Stringer is a Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, London. Peter Andrews formerly held the same position and is now curator of Blandford Museum. Both are world-renowned researchers in this field. Chris Stringer is author of In Search of the Neanderthals (with Clive Gamble),Homo Britannicus and The Origin of Our Species.

English

2011

240 Pages

25,50 x 19  cm