Ancient Bones (eBook)

Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
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2020
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-77164-752-6 (ISBN)

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Ancient Bones -  Madelaine Bohme,  Rudiger Braun,  Florian Breier
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Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Bhme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the fieldworker, and carries great authority. Tim Flannery, The New York Review of BooksIn this fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins (Kirkus STARRED Review), a renowned paleontologist takes readers behind-the-scenes of one of the most groundbreaking archaeological digs in recent history.Somewhere west of Munich, paleontologist Madelaine Bhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they ever imagined: the twelve-million-year-old bones of Danuvius guggenmosi make headlines around the world. This ancient ape defies prevailing theories of human historyhis skeletal adaptations suggest a new common ancestor between apes and humans, one that dwelled in Europe, not Africa. Might the great apes that traveled from Africa to Europe before Danuvius's time be the key to understanding our own origins?All this and more is explored in Ancient Bones. Using her expertise as a paleoclimatologist and paleontologist, Bhme pieces together an awe-inspiring picture of great apes that crossed land bridges from Africa to Europe millions of years ago, evolving in response to the challenging conditions they found.She also takes us behind the scenes of her research, introducing us to former theories of human evolution (complete with helpful maps and diagrams), and walks us through musty museum overflow storage where she finds forgotten fossils with yellowed labels, before taking us along to the momentous dig where she and the team unearthed Danuvius guggenmosi himselfand the incredible reverberations his discovery caused around the world.Praise for Ancient Bones:Readable and thought-provoking. Madelaine Bhme is an iconoclast whose fossil discoveries have challenged long-standing ideas on the origins of the ancestors of apes and humans.Steve Brusatte, New York Times-bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the DinosaursAn inherently fascinating, impressively informative, and exceptionally thought-provoking read.Midwest Book ReviewAn impressive introduction to the burgeoning recalibration of paleoanthropology.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

lt;p>MADELAINE BÖHME is a scientist, professor at the University of Tübingen, and founding director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment.

RÜDIGER BRAUN is a journalist who translates cutting-edge science into gripping stories to affect societal change.

FLORIAN BREIER is a journalist, filmmaker, and writer for various television networks.

DAVID R. BEGUN is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto and co-author of the 2019 study that broke the story of the newly discovered bones to the world.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.9.2020
Übersetzer Jane Billinghurst
Vorwort David R. Begun
Zusatzinfo 8-page color insert, maps and diagrams throughout
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte A short history of nearly everything • becoming human • behave the biology of humans at our best and worst • best books 2020 • Bill Bryson • books about evolution • books about human evolution • books about human history • books about human origins • books about paleontology • Florian Breier • good books to read 2020 • guns germs and steel • history of human evolution • Homo Deus • Jared Diamond • lewis dartnell • lone survivors • Madelaine Böhme • masters of the planet • origin • origin:a genetic hisotry of the americas • Origins • robert m sapolsky • Rüdiger Braun • sapiens • secrets of saqqara tomb • the body • timelines of everything • Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN-10 1-77164-752-3 / 1771647523
ISBN-13 978-1-77164-752-6 / 9781771647526
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