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Author Leakey, Richard E.

Title Origins : what new discoveries reveal about the emergence of our species and its possible future / Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin.

Imprint London : E.P. Dutton, 1977.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  573.2 L472o 1977    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 257) and index.
Summary Discusses the evolution of prehistoric ape-like creatures into human beings, theorizing that the key to this transformation was the ability to share and cooperate in a social context.
Contents Humanity in perspective -- The greatest revolution -- The roots of humanity -- Hominid beginnings -- The cradel of mankind -- From Africa to agriculture -- The first mixed economy -- Intelligence, language, and the human mind -- Aggression, sex, and human nature -- Mankind in prospective.
Subject Anthropology.
Human evolution.
Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
Human evolution. (OCoLC)fst00963030
Added Author Lewin, Roger, author.
ISBN 0525171940
9780525171942
0354041622
9780354041621

 
    
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