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Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves by Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle (Hardback, 2008)

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Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic form of human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized 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 reveal that as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe, and finally into 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 envisioned the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7 percent of their genes with the great apes - that in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human geme has been mapped - we w kw where each of the genes are located on the DNA strands that make up our chromosomes. In Human Origins: What Bones and Gemes Tell Us about Ourselves , two of the world's foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human geme confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and gemic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanity's place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today. Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History's new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.

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Publisher
Texas a & M University Press
ISBN-10
1585445673
ISBN-13
9781585445677
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95816528

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Author
Ian Tattersall, Rob Desalle
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Social Studies: General
Type
Textbook

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Height
254mm
Width
178mm

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Place of Publication
College Station
Series Part/Volume Number
No. 13
Series Title
Anthropology Series
Content Note
113 Colour Illustrations
Author Biography
ROB DESALLE is co-director of the Molecular Systematics Laboratories and curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, and IAN TATTERSALL is curator in the Division of Anthropology, both at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Out-Of-Print Date
12/02/2013
Date of Publication
01/05/2008
Genre
Social Studies: General
Country of Publication
United States

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