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"Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could and sent us into the world with confidence and love. Told...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Arnold wishes he had more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle revs up the Magic School Bus and the class zooms back to prehistoric times. First stop: 3.5 billion years ago! There aren't any people around to ask for directions. Luckily Ms. Frizzle has a plan, and the class is right there to watch simple cells become sponges and then fish and dinosaurs, then mammals and early primates and, eventually, modern humans. It's the longest class...
Series
Illustrated history of humankind volume 1
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Collected essays by T. H. Huxley volume VII
Publisher
D. Appleton and Co
Pub. Date
[1902]
Edition
Authorized edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
25) Treason
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Language
English
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An unusually gifted man who has the power of self-healing and bodily regeneration as well as the ability to cause earthquakes and drain lakes is exiled on a primitive planet and leads a revolution against its Offworld oppressors.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida--a perfectly fossilized early primate predating the most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by 44 million years--and her place in the world. At the same time, he explains how Ida opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
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Times Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
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Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the bestseller Lucy: the beginnings of mankind, celebrated paleoanthropologist Johanson and science journailst Wong explore the extraordinary discoveries since Lucy was unearthed more than three decades ago.
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Gives a history of anthropological research, beginning with discoveries in Africa of australopithecine bones, the Leakeys' discoveries in the African Rift Valley and Olduvai Gorge, and Donald Johanson's work in Hadar, Ethiopia. The various methods of determining evolutionary paths of man are shown through the investigation of fossilized bones and discovered tools; observing the behavior of living primates (including orangutan locomotion and chimpanzees...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Join geneticist Spencer Wells and a team from National Geographic's Genographic Project as they trace the human journey through time, from our origins in the heart of Africa to the ends of the world. Cutting edge science, coupled with a cast of New Yorkers -- each with their own unique genetic history -- helps paint a picture of these amazing journeys. The human family tree answers some of humanity's most burning questions -- who we are and where...
31) Prometheus
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English
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A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of human beings on Earth, which leads them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe, where they must fight to ensure the future of the human race.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans--homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo habilis who used tools; and of course the Neanderthals, who were brawny and strong. But shortly after their arrival, something happened that vaulted the species forward and made them the indisputable masters of the planet. This book is devoted to revealing just what that difference...
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English
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An investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character, as a geologic time, and as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own, a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions--of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least, early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 minues) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. Using both the fossil record and DNA evidence, traces various parts of the human body's structure to creatures that lived long, long, ago.
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Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely...
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