e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Sarmiento, Esteban E.
Subjects
Fossil hominids.
Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology -- Methodology.
Human beings -- Origin.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Sarmiento, Esteban E.
by title:
The last human : a g...
by call number:
569.9 S246L
Search the Web
Sarmiento, Esteban E.
Fossil hominids.
Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology -- Methodology.
Human beings -- Origin.
MARC Display
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.
by
Sarmiento
,
Esteban
E
.
Yale University Press, c2007.
Call #:
569.9 S246L
Subjects
Fossil hominids.
Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology -- Methodology.
Human beings -- Origin.
ISBN:
0300100477 (hbk.)
9780300100471 (hbk.)
Description:
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Notes:
"A Peter N. Nevraumont book."
Reconstructions of fossil hominids on display in the American Museum of Natural History's Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index.
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.
Other authors:
Sawyer, G. J. (Gary J.)
Milner, Richard, 1941-
Deak, Viktor.
Tattersall, Ian.
American Museum of Natural History. Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Non-Circulating Reference
569.9 S246L
Non-circulating
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.