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Author: Robert Jay Russell
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Robert Jay Russell opens the tale not with our apelike ancestors of 5 million years ago but - even closer to the roots of our primate family tree - with the lemurs of 50 million years ago.
Author: Alison Jolly
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780618367511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the rich human, plant, and animal diversity of this Isle off the East Coast of Africa, home to lemurs, unusual reptiles, and other creatures more at home in mythology than natural science.
Author: Alison Jolly
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780674005402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes a look at human evolution focusing on the long line of women and of female behavior that was to follow the age of the much-studied oldest human remains.
Author: Keriann McGoogan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1633886212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis inspiring memoir of one woman's experience in the field is an exotic adventure story, a surprise journey of self-discovery, and a deeply personal appreciation of a place that's unlike any other. At age twenty-five, graduate student Keriann McGoogan traveled into the wilds of Madagascar to study lemurs in their natural habitat and to set up a permanent field site in the remote northwest--a site to which she could later return to do research for her PhD in biological anthropology. Despite careful planning, the trip spiraled out of control. Food poisoning, harrowing backcountry roads, grueling hikes, challenging local politics, malaria, and an emergency evacuation would turn a simple reconnaissance into an epic adventure. In an engaging narrative, the author vividly describes the challenges of life in an isolated forest region while also bringing to life the wonders of Madagascar's incredible biodiversity, especially its many varieties of lemurs. Sadly, these rare animals are the most endangered group of primates in the world. At first accompanied by her thesis advisor, McGoogan is soon left alone when her mentor must return home. She carries on as the lone woman amid a small band of local male assistants, diligently conducting research on the lemur population around the camp. But when her right-hand man becomes delirious with malaria, she is forced to lead her team on a desperate three-day trek to safety. This fascinating memoir is equal parts a journey of self-discovery, an adventure story, and a heartfelt appreciation of a wonderful island country teaming with unique species and peopled by the warm and welcoming Malagasies with their intriguing indigenous culture.
Author: Dr. Donald Johanson
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0307396401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”–From Lucy’s Legacy In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the incredible story of his discovery of a partial female skeleton that revolutionized the study of human origins. Lucy literally changed our understanding of our world and who we come from. Since that dramatic find in 1974, there has been heated debate and–most important–more groundbreaking discoveries that have further transformed our understanding of when and how humans evolved. In Lucy’s Legacy, Johanson takes readers on a fascinating tour of the last three decades of study–the most exciting period of paleoanthropologic investigation thus far. In that time, Johanson and his colleagues have uncovered a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species, a transitional creature between apes and humans), spanning 400,000 years. As a result, we now have a unique fossil record of one branch of our family tree–that family being humanity–a tree that is believed to date back a staggering 7 million years. Focusing on dramatic new fossil finds and breakthrough advances in DNA research, Johanson provides the latest answers that post-Lucy paleoanthropologists are finding to questions such as: How did Homo sapiens evolve? When and where did our species originate? What separates hominids from the apes? What was the nature of Neandertal and modern human encounters? What mysteries about human evolution remain to be solved? Donald Johanson is a passionate guide on an extraordinary journey from the ancient landscape of Hadar, Ethiopia–where Lucy was unearthed and where many other exciting fossil discoveries have since been made–to a seaside cave in South Africa that once sheltered early members of our own species, and many other significant sites. Thirty-five years after Lucy, Johanson continues to enthusiastically probe the origins of our species and what it means to be human.
Author: Sue Taylor Parker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0759103151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about human evolution, which have been developed and debated since Darwin published The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871.
Author: Matt Cleaver
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1365785165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rico Paganini
Publisher: EVOL PUBLISHING
Published: 2021-08-11
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 3952398233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill humans overcome their technical, material worldview and find their way back to the freedom of the spiritual world? This can only succeed if we can realign with the lost legacies of ancient times and can decipher that wisdom. Scientists and spiritual explorers alike are striving to penetrate the hidden worlds of Giza. The discoveries they have made are nothing short of breathtaking. Some may suspect it while others already know: Here, both in and below the pyramids, lies the key to a liberating truth for all those who seek it—the GIZA LEGACY. In this groundbreaking book, Rico Paganini provides a fascinating overview of developments and discoveries involving the pyramids and the Sphinx. Modern technology combined with spiritual sensing abilities enabled him to penetrate spheres that have been blocked until now. In the course of two excursions to Egypt over a period of seven years, a world-shattering realization came to him: The real secret of the pyramids has never yet even been recognized. It has little to do with how they were built and their incomprehensible size and geometry, but instead it has to do with their metaphysical significance and their function as a guidepost to the subterranean world beneath them. In this book the author takes us along on some of his expeditions. He meticulously documented all that he experienced in photographs and sketches. The book features hundreds of photographs as well as maps and 3D graphics, which give us an impression of the structures found both aboveground and belowground in Giza and of newly discovered chambers and even the legendary Hall of Records. Giza Legacy paints a picture of a fascinating world in which the meaning of Giza is placed in a greater context that goes far beyond the borders of Egypt. It is nothing less than a new, or rediscovered, human history traced far back to the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria. The clues are there for all to see wherever the ancient megalithic structures remain. And the clues extend far beyond the distant past into the cosmos and the far-off constellations of Orion, Sirius and the Pleiades. Rico Paganini reveals the correlations that have until now been taboo. In a fascinating and methodical manner, he opens our eyes to the spiritual world behind the mundane material one, showing us how, through archeological discoveries, we can gain access to an entirely new worldview. However, a shadow has been cast upon the historical remains of the three ancient cultures. For years and with increasing tempo, a far-reaching wall is being built around the pyramids and Sphinx. The impressively documents the dimensions and significance of this dramatic development. For if they are here, both inside and beneath the structures—the answers to great questions of humanity lying hidden—then should scientific and spiritual researchers remain excluded from their discovery? Who or what lies behind the ridiculously extensive Giza Wall? Where do we come from? Where are we going? This book will affect those who ask themselves such questions. It is not just an extremely thorough report on the world wonders in Egypt but a report about the spiritual hope of humankind.
Author: Alison Jolly
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2015-03-12
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783603208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An enchanting book...poignant and passionate.' Geographical 'A captivating and absorbing account.' Sir David Attenborough Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her eyewitness account of the extraordinary biodiversity of the island, and the environment of its people. At the book’s heart is a conflict between three different views of nature. Is the extraordinary forest treasure-house of Madagascar a heritage for the entire world? Is it a legacy of the forest dwellers’ ancestors, bequeathed to serve the needs of their living descendants? Or is it an economic resource to be pillaged for short-term gain and to be preserved only to deliver benefits for those with political power? Exploring and questioning these different views, this is a beautifully written diary and a tribute to Madagascar.
Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-02-17
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1429914637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception. Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy. During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can't possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge! Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other-or both-but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual. In short, Robert J. Sawyner has done it again. Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
