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9781603442787 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, October 12, 2011, cover price $45.00
Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humansÂbipedal apes, actuallyÂfirst emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveriesÂMary Leakeyâs Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johansonâs Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickfordâs Millennium Man, to name just a fewÂexperts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apesÂthat in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mappedÂwe now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the worldâs foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanityâs place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural Historyâs new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.
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9781585445677 | 1 edition (Texas A & M Univ Pr, April 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins.
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9781603445184 | Reprint edition (Texas A & M Univ Pr, February 27, 2012), cover price $29.95
Product Description: A Great NEW Guide to Sharks & Rays, the book is packed full of useful information for students, shark enthusiast and collectors. Compiled from years of research and collecting specimen. The is in a large format so the pictures can be larger for easier learning...read more
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9781466470644 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 24, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A Great NEW Guide to Sharks & Rays, the book is packed full of useful information for students, shark enthusiast and collectors.
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9781466471184 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 24, 2011, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This book covers subjects such as the Proboscidean order, Proboscidean Teeth, Methods for determining age and much much more.
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9780764340307 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 28, 2012, cover price $29.99
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9780215047687 | The Stationery Office/Tso, August 1, 2012, cover price $34.50
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9789289324007 | Nordic Council of Ministers, October 1, 2012, cover price $57.50
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9780826352361 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 15, 2012, cover price $24.95
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9780643101777 | Csiro, October 31, 2012, cover price $62.95
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9781494421175 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2012, cover price $16.99
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9780300184600 | Italian edition edition (Yale Univ Pr, December 11, 2012), cover price $45.00
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9780226922966 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 14, 2013, cover price $45.00
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9780753725436 | Gardners Books, June 28, 2013, cover price $21.25
Product Description: This is the 2nd Edition of this great book with over 70 pages full of color photos of actual fossils not just one indistinct line drawings like most other reference books have. GREAT for ID of the fossils you will find or have in your collection, This book is the most complete & up to date book of it's kind, excellent , but without getting too bogged down with technical information & terms...read more
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9781480062467 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 8, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is the 2nd Edition of this great book with over 70 pages full of color photos of actual fossils not just one indistinct line drawings like most other reference books have.
9781466470958 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 24, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The book has 71 pages, multiple photos and pictures of actual fossils not just one indistinct line drawings like most other reference books have.
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9789774165948, titled "Egypt's Prehistoric Fauna: An Auc Press Nature Foldout" | Lam chrt edition (Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, August 15, 2013), cover price $6.95
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9780764343278 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 28, 2013, cover price $29.99
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9781770853157, titled "Mammoths & Mastodons of the Ice Age" | Firefly Books Ltd, January 16, 2014, cover price $29.95
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9780754829591 | Lorenz Books, November 7, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: More than 300 specimens are featured in this detailed photographic guide to recognizing plant and animal fossils, with examples from around the world.
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9780226124414 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 21, 2014, cover price $45.00
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9781499676440 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 24, 2014, cover price $12.95
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9780764346040 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, May 28, 2014, cover price $19.99
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9781500612306 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, July 21, 2014), cover price $11.11
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9783955704384 | Gardners Books, August 1, 2014, cover price $19.70
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9781623491925 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, August 18, 2014, cover price $45.00
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9781623492007 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, September 4, 2014, cover price $75.00
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