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  title info:
    title: Almost human
    sub title: the astonishing tale of Homo naledi and the discovery that changed our human story
  name:
    name part: Berger, Lee R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hawks, John (John David)
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 239 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators, men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. With this team of "underground astronauts," Berger made the discovery of a lifetime. Hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least fifteen individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger's team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi. The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions. Berger is a charming and controversial figure, and some colleagues question his interpretation of this and other finds. But in these pages, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters…
  table of contents: Prologue -- Going to South Africa -- Finding sediba -- Finding naledi -- Understanding naledi -- Epilogue -- Project participants, 2008-2015.
  note: Lee Berger and John Hawks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-233) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: Homo naledi
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Human remains (Archaeology)
    geographic: South Africa
    geographic: Witwatersrand Region
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Physical
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Expeditions & Discoveries
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Paleontology
  classification: GN284.5 .B47 2017
  classification: 569.9
  identifier: 9781426218118
  identifier: 1426218117
  identifier: 2016039509
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161215
    record change date: 20170926131015.0
    record identifier: in00003863525