The Ape In The Tree: An Intellectual & Natural History Of Proconsul - Hardcover

Walker, Alan; Shipman, Pat

 
9780674016750: The Ape In The Tree: An Intellectual & Natural History Of Proconsul
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674016750 ISBN 13: 9780674016750
Verlag: The Belknap Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

<p>This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: <i>Proconsul</i>, a fossil ape named whimsically after a performing chimpanzee called Consul. <br><br><i>The Ape in the Tree</i> is written in the voice of Alan Walker, whose involvement with <i>Proconsul</i> began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world. <br><br>The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walker's fossil-hunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa, where the team met with violent thunderstorms, dangerous wildlife, and people isolated from the Western world. Analysis of the thousands of new <i>Proconsul</i> specimens they recovered provides revealing glimpses of the life of this last common ancestor between apes and humans. <br><br>The attributes of <i>Proconsul</i> have profound implications for the very definition of humanness. This book speaks not only of an ape in a tree but also of the ape in our tree.</p>

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur Fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones.

Pat Shipman is the author of many books, including The Invaders, The Animal Connection, and The Ape in the Tree (with Alan Walker), which won the W. W. Howells Award from the American Anthropological Association. Shipman is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Geographical Society of London.

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Verlag
The Belknap Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674016750
ISBN 13 
9780674016750
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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