In search of Adam: the story of man's quest for the truth about his earliest ancestors |
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User Review - TrinityRedlands - LibraryThingThe sub-title tells it all. The book has a timeless quality since it details the search process that is still going on although the methods and questions are changing. Important since it shares German sources at mid-twentieth century. RMB,CSBS Read full review
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
THE MAN WHO CLASSIFIED NATURE | 25 |
CHAPTER HI LINKS BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST | 56 |
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| Title | In search of Adam: the story of man's quest for the truth about his earliest ancestors |
| Author | Herbert Wendt |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1956 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 29, 2006 |
| Length | 540 pages |
| Subjects | Anthropology, Prehistoric Human evolution Prehistoric peoples |
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