Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution - Softcover

Swisher III, Carl C.; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger

 
9780226787343: Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226787346 ISBN 13: 9780226787343
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2001

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"'Garniss, lend me your knife for a second, will you,' I whispered." So begins Java Man, the inside story of how one discovery—a human skull found on the island of Java—by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man, Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years, an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin, this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate.

Originally published by Scribner
2000 ISBN: 0-684-80000-4

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carl C. Swisher III is an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Rutgers University.

Garniss H. Curtis, a pioneer of modern techniques for dating ancient rocks, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.
Roger Lewin is the author of seventeen books, including Bones of Contention and Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, both available from the University of Chicago Press.

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"'Garniss, lend me your knife for a second, will you, ' I whispered." So begins Java Man, the inside story of how one discovery--a human skull found on the island of Java--by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man, Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years, an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin, this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate.

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"'Garniss, lend me your knife for a second, will you,' I whispered." So begins Java Man, the inside story of how one discovery—a human skull found on the island of Java—by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man, Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years, an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin, this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226787346
ISBN 13 
9780226787343
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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