255 Pages. Indexed. Previous owner's name at the top of the contents page reads "? 15 or 16 Nov 19 K. Blake". No other marks. Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we get here? These timeless questions have been asked ever since the beginning of human consciousness. But even as modern science seeks to find answers, myth, passion and bias still surround human evolution. Since the first century, the Smithsonian Institution has been in the forefront of efforts to shed scientific light on these great questions, to dispel myths and banish bias from the study of human evolution. In this book Roger Lewin working with leading anthropologists from the Smithsonian and other institutions, examines the background and significance of many of many recent discoveries and the often perplexing questions that remain.

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Title: In The Age of Mankind A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution
Publisher: Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C.
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0895990229
ISBN 13: 9780895990228
Binding: Hard Back
Edition: First Edition Third Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Describes what is currently known about human evolution, loks at the work of anthropologists, and discusses the human traits of consciousness and language

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Lewin is the co-author, with anthropologist Richard Leakey, of Origins and People of the Lake . Here, starting with the fossil nonhuman primates, he traces human development through the appearance of Homo sapiens and the domestication of plants and animals to the origins of the state and consideration of possible future changes. Not since F. Clark Howell's Early Man (1973), a Time-Life book, has the excitement, controversy, and knowledge about human biological and cultural evolution been so successfully conveyed. With 261 color illustrations, this should be a first recommendation when someone asks for an introduction to anthropology. William S. Dancey, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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