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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last human
    sub title: a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans
  name:
    name part: Sarmiento, Esteban E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sawyer, G. J. (Gary J.)
  name:
    name part: Milner, Richard
    name part: 1941-
  name:
    name part: Deak, Viktor.
  name:
    name part: Tattersall, Ian.
  name:
    name part: Studio V
  name:
    name part: American Museum of Natural History
    name part: Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm.
  table of 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.
  note: 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.
  note: "A Peter N. Nevraumont book."
  note: Reconstructions of fossil hominids on display in the American Museum of Natural History's Spitzer Hall of Human Origins.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 251) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fossil hominids
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Paleoanthropology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Origin
  classification: 569.9
  identifier: 0300100477 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9780300100471 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 060201
    record change date: 20151105055425.0
    record identifier: in00002241833