TY - BOOK TI - Ecce homo: writings in honour of third-millennium man SN - 8843571702, 9788843571703 U1 - 599.938 PY - 1999/// CY - Milan PB - Electa KW - Fossil hominids KW - Primitive societies KW - Human evolution N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -