Lowly Origin
Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelowlyoriginwhere0000king
- Internet Archivelowlyoriginwhere0000king_y8f0
- ISBN-100691120285
- ISBN-139780691120287
- Goodreads1120166
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number56696014
- Better World Books9780691120287
- Open LibraryOL7758927M
Classifications
- LCCGN282.K54 2004
- LCCGN282.5 .K5 2004x
- LCCGN282 .K54 2003
Description
"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."--Jacket.
First Sentence
Why Lowly Origin? Peculiarity of bipedalism and role of geography and ecology in explaining it.
Excerpt
Why Lowly Origin? Peculiarity of bipedalism and role of geography and ecology in explaining it.
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