TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarmiento,Esteban E.
AU  - Sawyer,G.J.
AU  - Milner,Richard
AU  - Deak,Viktor
AU  - Tattersall,Ian
TI  - The last human: a guide to twenty-two species of extinct humans 
SN  - 0300100477 : HRD
AV  - GN282 .S27 2007
U1  - 569.9 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Haven, Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Fossil hominids
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Origin
N1  - "A Peter N. Nevraumont book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 251) and index; Foreword; by Donald C. Johanson --; We were not alone. Introduction; by Ian Tattersall --; The earliest African hominids; Morning encounters; Sahelanthropus tchadensis; Orrorin tugenensis; Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba --; Omo, Lake Turkana, and Awash basins and the appearance of the human lineage; A much welcomed visit : Australopithecus anamensis; We are family : Kenyanthropus platyops; The first nomad? Australopithecus afarensis; Dispatching a mortal enemy : Paranthropus aethiopicus; The first tool-using scavenger? Australopithecus garhi --; The South African fossil caves sites; The animal trap : Australopithecus africanus; To live and die on the high veldt : Paranthropus robustus/crassidens --; Back to the East African Great Rift Valley and the appearance of Homo; A two leg advantage : Homo rudolfensis; The luck of the Pygmy : Homo habilis; In the shadow of man : Paranthropus boisei; When opportunity knocks : Homo ergaster --; From Africa to Asia?; A handful of know-how : Homo georgicus; Eve without Adam : Homo erectus; A winter night's desperation : Homo pekinensis; An island sunset for the little people : Homo floresiensis --; Africa, Europe, and then the world; The ultimate competitor : Homo antecessor; How to grow a sugarplum tree : Homo rhodesiensis; Greed and equality : Homo heidelbergensis; Hunters and hunted : Homo neanderthalensis --; Then there was one; Homo sapiens --; Afterword; by Maeve Leakey --; Appendix 1; The search for faces of the past; by G.J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak --; Appendix 2; Portraits of prehistory : imaging our ancestors; by Richard Milner
N2  - Creates three-dimensional scientific reconstructions for twenty-two species of extinct humans, providing information for each one on its emergence, chronology, geographic range, classification, physiology, environment, habitat, cultural achievements, coexisting species, and possible reasons for extinction
ER  -