TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gundling,Tom
TI  - First in line: tracing our ape ancestry 
SN  - 9780300130744
AV  - GN281 .G86 2005eb
U1  - 569.9 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Origin
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Australopithecines
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - Fossils
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Hominidae
KW  - Êtres humains
KW  - Origines
KW  - Homme fossile
KW  - Australopithèques
KW  - Paléoanthropologie
KW  - Fossiles
KW  - paleoanthropology
KW  - aat
KW  - fossils
KW  - NATURE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Mensachtigen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Afstamming
KW  - Paleoantropologie
KW  - Paradigma's
KW  - Verschuivingen
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-191) and index; The great chain legacy -- Putting the chain in motion -- Finding missing links -- The southern ape -- Darwin redux
N2  - Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ancestors. Remains of the australopiths, as these bipedal apes are now called, were first discovered in 1924, yet 25 years passed before the australopiths found their place on the human family tree. This book is the first to document in detail this paradigm shift in paleoanthropology between 1924 and 1950. Tom Gundling examines a period in anthropological history when ideas about what it means to be human were severely tested. Drawing on extensive primary sources, many never before published, he argues that the reinterpretation of early human fossils came about at last because of changes in theoretical approach, not simply because new and more complete fossils had been recovered. Gundling concludes with a review of the most significant post-1950 events in the field of paleoanthropology
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