Author

Publication

2016 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

82,000 words, Guess

Page Count

328 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCGN281+
  • LCCGN281 .A54 2015

Description

"Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology, this book provides a new perspective on human evolution. What can fossil apes tell us about the origins of human evolution? Did the last common ancestor of apes and humans live in trees or on the ground? What did it eat, and how did it survive in a world full of large predators? Did it look anything like living apes? Andrews addresses these questions and more to reconstruct the common ancestor and its habitat. Synthesising thirty-five years of work on both ancient environments and fossil and modern ape anatomy, this book provides unique new insights into the evolutionary processes that led to the origins of the human lineage"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ape's View of Human EvolutionCambridge University Press2016

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