Early ManSutton Pub., 1999 - 120 Seiten How were we transformed from ape-like creatures without tool-making, language ot culture into people of the latter part of the last ice age who, give or take the further progress of technology, were just like ourselves? Covering five million years, this is the story of human evolution. Incorporating fresh fossil discoveries in Africa, new assessments of old finds, the latest genetic developments and fledgling studies on the evolution of the mind, it is a vivid account of our collective past. |
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The Evolutionary Background | 1 |
From Apeman to Early Man | 23 |
The Human Line | 45 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Acheulian afarensis Age in Africa ancestors ancestry animal bones anthropologists apes archaeological Ardipithecus Aurignacian Australopithecines Australopithecus afarensis bifacially bipedal blades brain brow cave Chatelperronian chimpanzees chimps consciousness cranial capacity creature culture early hominids early Homo sapiens East Africa Ethiopia Europe evidence evolved females finds flake tools fossil record found in association fragment gorillas gracile grassland hand-axe hominids Homo erectus Homo ergaster Homo habilis Homo heidelbergensis Homo sapiens neanderthalensis Homo sapiens sapiens human evolution hunting interglacial Kabwe language last ice age Levallois technique Levant Levantine look Lower Palaeolithic males meat Middle Palaeolithic modern humanity molars Mousterian Mousterian tools mtDNA musculature natural selection Neanderthal Oldowan perhaps Petralona POCKET HISTORIES primates probably range remains scavenged seen sexual skeleton social sophistication South Africa species stage of human Steinheim Stone Age stone tools SUTION POCKET teeth Upper Palaeolithic Zhoukoudian