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Last ape standing : the seven-million year story of how and why we survived / Chip Walter.
"Tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's brutal and capricious ways we stand here today, the only surviving humans, and the planet's most dominant species"--P. [4] of jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802717566 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 080271756X (hbk.)
- Physical Description: xiv, 220 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Walker & Company, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The battle for survival -- The invention of childhood (or, Why it hurts to have a baby) -- Learning machines -- Tangled webs--the moral primate -- The everywhere ape -- Cousin creatures -- Beauties in the beast -- The voice inside your head -- Epilogue: The next human. |
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| Subject: | Fossil hominids. Primates > Evolution. Human evolution. |
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