An edition of Lowly Origin (2003)

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Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up

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An edition of Lowly Origin (2003)

Lowly Origin

Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up

"Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of us learned about in school." "Jonathan Kingdon uses the very latest findings from ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to build a new and up-to-date account of how four-legged apes became two-legged hominins. He describes what it took to get up onto two legs as well as the protracted consequences of that step - some of which led straight to modern humans and others to very different bipeds. This allows him to make sense of recently unearthed evidence suggesting that no fewer than twenty species of humans and hominins have lived and become extinct. Following the evolution of two-legged creatures from our earliest lowly forebears to the present, Kingdon concludes with future options for the last surviving biped."--Jacket.

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Language
English
Pages
408

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Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
September 14, 2004, Princeton University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Lowly Origin
Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
April 7, 2003, Princeton University Press
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First Sentence

"Why Lowly Origin? Peculiarity of bipedalism and role of geography and ecology in explaining it."

Classifications

Library of Congress
GN282.K54 2003, GN282 .K54 2003

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
408
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7757293M
ISBN 10
0691050864
ISBN 13
9780691050867
LCCN
2002072852
OCLC/WorldCat
49959372
Library Thing
1080944
Goodreads
2678012

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Why Lowly Origin? Peculiarity of bipedalism and role of geography and ecology in explaining it.
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