Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us HumanRichard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means. |
Contents
In Search of the Turkana | 1 |
To West Turkana 3 26 | 3 |
A Giant Lake | 26 |
The Turkana Boy | 41 |
In Search of Beginnings | 65 |
Of Myths and Molecules | 67 |
Upright Apes and Family Relations | 81 |
The Human Bush | 97 |
In Search of Modern Humans | 201 |
The Mystery of Modern Humans | 203 |
Mitochondrial Eve and Human Violence | 218 |
In Search of the Modern Human Mind | 237 |
The Loom of Language | 239 |
Evidence of Mind | 252 |
Murder in a Zoo | 278 |
Mirror on the Mind | 295 |
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of what Makes Us Human Richard E. Leakey,Roger Lewin No preview available - 1993 |
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