The last human : a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans / created by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak ; text by Esteban Sarmiento, G.J. Sawyer and Richard Milner ; with contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Maeve Leakey and Ian Tattersall.

Author/creator Sarmiento, Esteban E.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Description256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm
Subjects
Fossil hominids.
Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology--Methodology.
Human beings--Origin.

Other author/creatorSawyer, G. J. (Gary J.)
Other author/creatorMilner, Richard, 1941-
Other author/creatorDeak, Viktor.
Other author/creatorTattersall, Ian.
Other author/creatorStudio V.
Other author/creatorAmerican Museum of Natural History. Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
Contents Foreword / by Donald C. Johanson -- We were not alone. Introduction / by Ian Tattersall -- The earliest African hominids. Morning encounters. Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Orrorin tuganensis. Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba -- Omo, Lake Turkana, and Awash basins and the appearance of the human lineage. A much welcomed visit : Australopithecus anamensis. We are family : Kenyanthropus platyops. The first nomad? Australopithecus afarensis. Dispatching a mortal enemy : Paranthropus aethiopicus. The first tool-using scavenger? Australopithecus garhi -- The South African fossil caves sites. The animal trap : Australopithecus africanus. To live and die on the high veldt : Paranthropus robustus/crassidens -- Back to the East African Great Rift Valley and the appearance of Homo. A two leg advantage : Homo rudolfensis. The luck of the Pygmy : Homo habilis. In the shadow of man : Paranthropus boisei. When opportunity knocks : Homo ergaster -- From Africa to Asia? A handful of know-how : Homo georgicus. Eve without Adam : Homo erectus. A winter night's desperation : Homo pekinensis. An island sunset for the little people : Homo floresiensis -- Africa, Europe, and then the world. The ultimate competitor : Homo antecessor. How to grow a sugarplum tree : Homo rhodesiensis. Greed and equality : Homo heidelbergensis. Hunters and hunted : Homo neanderthalensis -- Then there was one. Homo sapiens -- Afterword / by Maeve Leakey -- Appendix 1. The search for faces of the past / by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak -- Appendix 2. Portraits of prehistory : imaging our ancestors / by Richard Milner.
General note"A Peter N. Nevraumont book."
General noteReconstructions of fossil hominids on display in the American Museum of Natural History's Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index.
ISBN0300100477 (hbk.)
ISBN9780300100471 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GN282 .S27 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold