Leakey, Richard

Origins reconsidered : in search of what makes us human / Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. - New York : Anchor Books, ©1992. - xxii, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Part One; In Search of the Turkana Boy
1. To west Turkana
2. A Giant Lake
3. The Turkana Boy

Part Two; In Search of Beginnings
4. Of Myths and Molecules
5. Upright Apes and Family Relations
6. The Human Bush
7. The Black Skull

Part Three; In Search of Humanity
8. Human Origins
9. This way lies Humanity
10. A pendulum Swings too far
11. The Human Milieu

Part Four. In search of modern Humans
12. The mystery of modern humans
13. Mitochondrial Eve and Human Violence

Part Five. In search of the Modern Human Mind
14. The Loom of Language
15. Evidence of Mind
16. Murder in a zoo
17. Conscience Mirror on the Mind
18. Windows on other Worlds

Part Six. In Search of the Future
19. Origins Reconsidered

Includes Index



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Anthropology.
Human evolution.
Prehistoric peoples--Africa, East.

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