Leakey, Richard E.
Mankind and ist beginningsSignatur: A600-B120-D001-A005
Autor: Leakey, Richard E.;
Buchart: Hardcover
Verlag: Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 1978
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 298
Format: 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 21,5 x 14,5 cm x 3,0 cm
ISBN 10: 0-385-13025-2
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
0. Acknowledgements; 0. Preface by Roger Lewin; 1. People of the Lake; 2. A Question of Survival; 3. In the Beginning; 4. A New Perspective on Human Origins; 5. The Humand Family Unearthed; 6. Lessons from Bones and Stones; 7. An Ancient Way of Life; 8. The First Affluent Society; 9. The Nature of Intelligence; 10. The Origins of Language; 11. Sex and the Need for Woman's Liberation; 12. An End to the Hunting Hypothesis
Index
Kurzbeschreibung:
Book about human prehistory
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Richard E. Leakey is rewriting the history of our species. At Koobi Fora, on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, he and his team are piecing together not only the anatomy of our ancient ancestors, but their social behaviour as well. Heir to one of the most renowned names in anthropology, Leakey and his colleagues have discovered more fossils in a few short years than most anthropologists do in a lifetime. [...]"
0. Acknowledgements; 0. Preface by Roger Lewin; 1. People of the Lake; 2. A Question of Survival; 3. In the Beginning; 4. A New Perspective on Human Origins; 5. The Humand Family Unearthed; 6. Lessons from Bones and Stones; 7. An Ancient Way of Life; 8. The First Affluent Society; 9. The Nature of Intelligence; 10. The Origins of Language; 11. Sex and the Need for Woman's Liberation; 12. An End to the Hunting Hypothesis
Index
Kurzbeschreibung:
Book about human prehistory
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Richard E. Leakey is rewriting the history of our species. At Koobi Fora, on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, he and his team are piecing together not only the anatomy of our ancient ancestors, but their social behaviour as well. Heir to one of the most renowned names in anthropology, Leakey and his colleagues have discovered more fossils in a few short years than most anthropologists do in a lifetime. [...]"
