THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN EVOLUTION An Introduction to the Study of Paleoanthropology

Issued in 'The Scientist's Library. Biology and Medicine' series, with 2pp. series Preface by Peter P.H. De Bruyn. x+181, 20 text figs; small single name stamp top front endpaper, bookseller's small label bottom front pastedown, very faint hint of tanning to endpaper edge regions of little significance, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean, unworn covers, very faint suggestion of fading to top front edge; unclipped jacket clean, three short nicks to bottom edge now closed internally but still visible, otherwise virtually unworn, fading from grey to lighter grey to spine, top edge and front fore-edge regions, will add protective sleeve when ordered. An authoritative overview of the state of the field at time of puublication. As a bonus two short newsclippings slipped in - an 1959 report of L.S.B. Leakey's discovery of Zinjanthropus and a later, c.1969, report of Wilson & Sarich research on human vs chimpanzee haemoglobin differences and implications for date of divergence, these both a little browned. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm.…