Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form
Language: English
Published by Abrams Books, 2019
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Large quarto. Black boards with dark orange lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Scuff/stain on front board, very slightly cocked. Jacket has very light edge wear. VG+ / NF.
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- Title
- Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form
- Author
- John Gurche
- Publisher
- Abrams Books
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1419734482
- ISBN 13
- 9781419734489
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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About the Author
David R. Begun is a paleoanthropologist working on questions of ape and human origins for over thirty-five years. He has directed excavations in Spain and Hungary, discovered some of the most complete fossil apes, and published influential theories of great ape evolution. His research spans the fossil records of Europe, Asia and Africa over a time period from 20 to 7 million years ago.
Carol Ward is director of anatomical sciences at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
Rick Potts is a paleoanthropologist and director of the Human Origins Program, based at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. He is the curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s Hall of Human Origins and author of its companion book What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Trenton W. Holliday is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he has been employed since 1998. An expert on Neandertals and modern human origins, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 1995 and is author or co-author on over fifty peer-reviewed contributions on human evolution.
Meave Leakey is a research professor in paleoanthropology at Stony Brook University and director of field research at the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya. She is the fourth member of her distinguished family to win the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society.
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