Seven skeletons the evolution of the world's most famous human fossils
"A science historian describes seven famous ancestral fossils that have become known around the world, including the three-foot tall "hobbit" from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba and Lucy,"--NoveList.
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: famous fossils, hidden histories
- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo
- Piltdown: a name without a fossil
- The Taung child: the rise of a folk hero
- Peking Man: a curious case of paleo-noir
- The ascension of an icon: Lucy in the sky
- The precious: Flo's life as a hobbit
- Sediba: TBD (to be determined)
- Afterword: O fortuna!: a bit of luck, a bit of skill.
