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100 1 $aKingdon, Jonathan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80159243
245 10 $aLowly origin :$bwhere, when, and why our ancestors first stood up /$cJonathan Kingdon.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axx, 396 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tPreface to a Self-portrait from the Center of the World -- $gCh. 2.$tOn Being a Primate: From Gondwana to the Forests of Egypt -- $gCh. 3.$tOn Being an Ape: Excursions to Asia and Back -- $gCh. 4.$tOn Being a Ground Ape: Zanj -- $gCh. 5.$tOn Becoming a Biped: "Evolution by Basin": Domes, Rifts, and Floodplains -- $gCh. 6.$tOn Being a Manipulative Man-ape: Isolation in the South -- $gCh. 7.$tOn the Uncertainties of Becoming Human: Main-line, Side-line, or Parallel Humans? -- $gCh. 8.$tOn Going Far With Fire: Africans Go Abroad -- $gCh. 9.$tOn Being a Self-made Human: The Modern Diaspora -- $gCh. 10.$tIn Conclusion: Confessions of a Repentant Vandal -- $gApp.$tPlants Known to Be Especially Favored by Humans and Other Primates.
520 1 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aThis 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFossil hominids.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051024
650 0 $aBipedalism$xOrigin.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xOrigin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080301
650 0 $aHuman evolution.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062868
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