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Author Beard, K. Christopher.

Title The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  569.8 BEARD    Check Shelf
Description xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
Contents Missing links and dawn monkeys -- Toward Egypt's sacred bull -- A gem from the Willwood -- The forest in the Sahara -- Received wisdom -- The birth of a ghost lineage -- Initial hints from deep time -- Ghost busters -- Resurrecting the ghost -- Into the African melting pot -- Paleoanthropology and pithecophobia.
Subject Primates, Fossil.
Monkeys, Fossil.
Fossil hominids.
Human beings -- Origin.
Paleoanthropology.
ISBN 0520233697 alkaline paper
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