The Chosen Species The Long March of Human Evolution [Paperback]

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• Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World Heritage Site and Europe’s oldest known burial site---where a new human species, homo antecessor, was discovered
  
• Discusses various hypotheses of human evolution, drawing conclusions from verifiable facts and well-founded argument
  
• Offers a compelling narrative written for nonspecialists and students of human evolution
  
• Includes over 60 illustrations
  
• Sold over 100,000 copies in the original Spanish-language edition

Introduction: Prehistory.

Little Lucy.

Intrepid Paleontologists..

Part I: Children of Africa.

1. Basic Principles of Evolutionary Theory.

2. We the Primates.

3. Climate and Evolution.

4. The Origin of Humanity.

5. The Bipedal Chimpanzee.

6. Paranthropus - Hominids of the Open Plains.

7. A New Kind of Hominid.

8. The Evolution of the Brain.

9. Teeth, Guts, Hands, Brain.

10. Development.

11. Social Intelligence.

Summary..

Part II: A New Home.

12. New Locations for Human Evolution.

13. The Neanderthals.

14. The Origins of Modern Humanity: the Fossil Evidence.