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100 1 $aWalker, Alan,$d1938-
245 14 $aThe wisdom of the bones :$bin search of human origins /$cAlan Walker and Pat Shipman.
250 $a1st ed.
264 1 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bRandom House,$c1996.
300 $ax, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index.
520 $aA remarkable discovery was made a decade ago on a dig in northern Kenya. When all the bone and skull fragments were painstakingly pieced together, they revealed the nearly complete skeleton of a teenage male (nicknamed Nariokotome boy, after a nearby sand river). Faced with the best-ever specimen of Homo erectus - a species long identified as the proverbial missing link between apes and humans - paleoanthropologist Alan Walker embarked on a long-term investigation of that species's nature. In this book, telling the story of that inquiry, he introduces us to his ever surprising, deeply engrossing world.
520 8 $aWalker examines even the tiniest of bones and the subtlest of clues in his analysis. He first recounts the story of the more-than-century-long search for the "missing link," a bizarre and compelling saga made up of brilliant science and speculative nonsense. Then he builds, step-by-step, on some of his predecessors' assumptions, and he challenges others, using state-of-the-art techniques to reveal the truth. In Walker's hands the bones reveal an amazing amount of information about the Nariokotome boy's anatomy and the way he lived. We watch as Walker deduces from the evidence that community and cooperation were already very important at this stage of human evolution; that the boy was modern in climatic adaptation and locomotion yet archaic in growth pattern; and that the boy could not speak. In Walker's final assessment this last insight becomes the most important one.
586 $aRoyal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 1997.
505 0 $aThe youth, stone dead -- A skeleton in the closet -- Chinese fortunes -- The man who lost the missing link -- Missing links from the missing continent -- Sex & the missing link -- The single species solo -- Food for thought -- Vital statistics on a dead boy -- Skeleton keys -- The predatory habit -- A balanced perspective -- Rendered speechless -- Finding links, missing links.
650 0 $aHomo erectus$zKenya.
650 6 $aHomo erectus$zKenya.
650 7 $aHomo erectus.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00959705
651 7 $aKenya.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208718
650 7 $aHomo erectus$2gnd
650 7 $aSkelettfund$2gnd
650 7 $aPaläanthropologie$2gnd
650 7 $aMensch$2gnd
650 7 $aPhylogenie$2gnd
651 7 $aNariokotometal$2gnd
651 7 $aKenia$2gnd
650 7 $aFossil hominids.$2sears
650 12 $aPaleontology.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010163
650 22 $aHominidae.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015186
653 0 $aNariokotome Boy (Homo erectus)
655 2 $aPersonal Narrative.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062210
700 1 $aShipman, Pat,$d1949-
776 08 $iOnline version:$aWalker, Alan, 1938-$tWisdom of the bones.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996$w(OCoLC)605374377
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