Beard, K. Christopher.

The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark Klingler. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xv, 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.

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.

0520233697 (alk. paper)

2004001403

GBA471817 bnb

013007166 Uk 101237273 DNLM


Primates, Fossil.
Monkeys, Fossil.
Fossil hominids.
Human beings--Origin.
Paleoanthropology.
Primates.
Evolution.
Paleontology.

QE 882 .P7 / B35 2004