Ancestors: In Search of Human OriginsAncestors is the companion volume to a three-part miniseries - hosted by Johanson - of the award-winning PBS science series NOVA. With spectacular photographs and riveting accounts of Dr. Johanson's recent adventures in such exotic landscapes as fossil-rich eastern Africa and the Willandra Lakes region of Australia, the excitement of discovery is contagious. Like a good detective on a lead, Johanson crosses four continents, gathering clues to hominid anatomy, habitat, and placement along the fossil time line in an effort to piece together a compelling picture of human ancestry. |
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Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins Donald C. Johanson,Lenora Johanson,Blake Edgar Snippet view - 1994 |
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Aborigines Afar Alan Thorne anatomical ancestors archeological archeologists Australia Australopithecus afarensis behavior bipedalism body brain browridge camp canines carcass carnivores cave chimpanzee Chris Cro-Magnon culture D. C. JOHANSON Dart Dart's dertal discovery Donald Johanson Dubois early hominids evidence evolutionary evolved excavation face femur fire flakes fossils Gagudju Hadar Hadar hominids hominid hominid fossils Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapiens human evolution Human Origins hunting hyenas IAN EVERARD Institute of Human Java Kakadu Kanzi Kebara Klasies River Mouth Koonalda Kow Swamp Lake layer Leakey leopard limb bones lived look Lucy Makapansgat male marrow meat Michel million years ago modern humans mtDNA Multiregional Model Mungo Nariokotome Neandertals Nullarbor Ofer Olduvai Gorge Owen paintings paleoanthropologists pelvis populations primates Qafzeh region robust australopithecines rock savanna scavenging sediments Serengeti skeleton Skhul species specimen stone tools Swartkrans Taung teeth tion tree Zhoukoudian