The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most...
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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Gibbons, Ann

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

BD$29.68

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

BD$29.68
Author: Ann Gibbons
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the "missing link"-the fossil of the earliest human ancestor-Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups-one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut-who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.

Author: Ann Gibbons
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 04/10/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781400076963


Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 07/01/2007 pg. 40

About the Author
Ann Gibbons, the primary writer on human evolution for Science magazine for more than a decade, has taught science writing at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Science Journalism Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. www.anngibbons.com


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