Ecce homo : writings in honour of third-millennium man/ edited by Donald C. Johanson, Giancarlo Ligabue - 322 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Introduction / Donald C. Johanson -- The early history of primates before the apes / Herbert Thomas -- Hominoid primates of the Miocene and the origin of modern Hominidae / Louis de Bonis -- Hominidae and environment / Yves Coppens -- Australopithecines: the East African evidence / Donald C. Johanson -- Homo habilis: the first human Hominin / Phillip V. Tobias -- Diversity among the first modern bipeds: Homo ergaster and Homo erectus / Ian Tattersall -- The lithic industry: the archaeological evidence for the human capacity for culture / Nicholas Toth and Kathy D. Schick -- The intellectual expressions of Homo sapiens / Emmanuel Anati -- Our unusual unity / Stephen Jay Gould -- Life in the universe / Margherita Hack -- A new economy for a new century / Lester R. Brown and Christopher Flavin -- Ecce homo / Giancarlo Ligabue.
Collected essays by leading international experts on the origins of man and the state of human evolution at the beginning of the third millennium.

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Fossil hominids
Primitive societies
Human evolution

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