The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans

Sarmiento, Esteban; Sawyer, G J; and Milner, Richard (text by)

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007

About this Item

Foreword by Donald C Johanson. 256pp, illustrated throughout in color and b/w, maps, Afterword by Meave Leakey, two appendices, index. Papered boards, with a lightly bumped lower front corner, in dust-jacket. Using a 'Dissection in Reverse' technique successive layers of muscle, glands, skin and hair are added to ancient fossil skulls to re-create the faces of extinct human ancestors. The narrative combines docudramas that imagine a day in the life of each of the featured extinct humans, with succinct accounts of what is currently known about the anatomy, behavior, habitat, and place of each hominid species in the family tree. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2007
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: American Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnology
  • Natural History & Environment
  • Science, Technical & Mathematics