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- catalog abstract ""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." "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. This 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12821400.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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." "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. This 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface to a self-portrait from the center of the world -- On being a primate: from Gondwana to the forests of Egypt -- On being an ape: excursions to Asia and back -- On being a ground ape: Zanj -- On becoming a biped: evolution by basin: domes, rifts, and floodplains -- On being a manipulative man-ape: isolation in the south -- On the uncertainties of becoming human: main-line, side-line, or parallel humans? -- On going far with fire: Africans go abroad -- On being a self-made human: the modern Diaspora -- In conclusion: confessions of a repentant vandal -- Plants known to be especially favored by humans and other primates.".
- catalog extent "xx, 396 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691050864 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "2003 G-711".
- catalog subject "599.93/8 21".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution Africa.".
- catalog subject "Bipedalism Origin.".
- catalog subject "Fossil hominids.".
- catalog subject "GN 282 K54L 2003".
- catalog subject "GN282 .K54 2003".
- catalog subject "Hominidae Africa.".
- catalog subject "Human beings Origin.".
- catalog subject "Human evolution.".
- catalog subject "Locomotion Africa.".
- catalog subject "Posture Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface to a self-portrait from the center of the world -- On being a primate: from Gondwana to the forests of Egypt -- On being an ape: excursions to Asia and back -- On being a ground ape: Zanj -- On becoming a biped: evolution by basin: domes, rifts, and floodplains -- On being a manipulative man-ape: isolation in the south -- On the uncertainties of becoming human: main-line, side-line, or parallel humans? -- On going far with fire: Africans go abroad -- On being a self-made human: the modern Diaspora -- In conclusion: confessions of a repentant vandal -- Plants known to be especially favored by humans and other primates.".
- catalog title "Lowly origin : where, when, and why our ancestors first stood up / Jonathan Kingdon.".
- catalog type "text".