TY  - BOOK
AU  - Falk,Dean
TI  - The fossil chronicles: how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution 
SN  - 9780520949645
AV  - GN282.5 .F35 2011eb
U1  - 599.93/8 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Flores man
KW  - Australopithecines
KW  - Human remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Fossils
KW  - Hominidae
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Homme fossile
KW  - Homme de Flores
KW  - Australopithèques
KW  - Restes humains (Archéologie)
KW  - Êtres humains
KW  - Évolution
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Paléoanthropologie
KW  - Évolution (Biologie)
KW  - Fossiles
KW  - Homo floresiensis (extinct species)
KW  - aat
KW  - paleoanthropology
KW  - evolution
KW  - fossils
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Physical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Paläanthropologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Australopithecus africanus
KW  - Flores
KW  - Indonesien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Of paleopolitics and missing links -- Taung : a fossil to rival Piltdown -- Taung's checkered past -- Sulcal skirmishes -- Once upon a hobbit -- Flo's little brain -- Sick hobbits, quarrelsome scientists -- Whence Homo floresiensis? -- Bones to pick
N2  - Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insiders account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. The first is the Taung child, a two-million-year-old skull from South Africa that led anatomist Raymond Dart to argue that this creature had walked upright and that Africa held the key to the fossil ancestry of our species. The second find consisted of the partial skeleton of a three-and-a-half-foot-tall woman, nicknamed Hobbit, from Flores Island, Indonesia. She is thought by scientists to belong to a new, recently extinct species of human, but her story is still unfolding. Falk, who has studied the brain casts of both Taung and Hobbit, reveals new evidence crucial to interpreting both discoveries and proposes surprising connections between this pair of extraordinary specimens
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