Natural History Books: Human Evolution
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A Reexamination of the Forelimb of the Miocene Hominoidea
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972. First edition. Pp. xv, 205; 18 full page black-and-white photos, some other text-figures. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This is Dr. Morbeck's Ph.D. dissertation on a new study of the joint components of the Miocene hominoid forelimb fossils. From this this study she concluded that none of these fossils were brachiators (arm-swingers). From a morphological perspective their bones were more like extant monkeys rather than extant apes. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (as new) copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1959. First edition. Pp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher’s original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17. Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to ‘Telanthropus’ now called early Homo. Small bump to bottom corner of spine, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Framework for Dating Fossil Man
Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1964. First edition. Pp. x, 355; 83 text-figures (maps and line-drawings), 16 tables. Publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, white and green dust jacket lettered in black, 8vo. This volume is the first to present both archaeological and geological dating of human fossil remains in a single source. From the research collection of William L. Straus, Jr., a physical anthropologist; born in Baltimore, MD and who taught at Johns Hopkins (1927–66), where he made detailed anatomical and neuromuscular studies of apes and monkeys. Original addenda and corrigenda are tipped in on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a complete very good dust jacket..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Anthropologie de Cambodgiens
Paris: Ecole franc?aise d'Extre?me-Orient, 1968. First edition. Pp. (ii), 430; 55 text-figures and photos, numerous tables. Contemporary dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. From the series: Publications hors se?rie de l'Ecole franc?aise d'Extre?me Orient. This monograph documents the Cambodian (Khmer) people from the prehistoric and modern demographic perspectives. In addition, the anthropometry of modern Khmer populations is presented. The monograph ends by comparing the Khmer with other peoples living in Southeast Asia and southern China. Same red ink name stamp of White Lotus Books on the first endpaper. No ownership marks and almost no signs of use. Uncommon title. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
The Swanscombe Skull: A survey of research on a Pleistocene site
London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1964. First edition. Pp. xii, 215; 25 black-and-white photo-plates of cranial parts and the discovery site, 67 text-figures (line-drawings of geological sections, artifacts, mammalian fauna and the Swanscombe cranial parts). Publisher's original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to (11 x 7.5 inches). This is Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional Paper no. 20. This work presents 21 chapters by noted authorities in the field. The work is divided into four parts. Part I presents the Geology and Archaeology; Part II covers the fauna recovered from the site; Part III details the anatomy of skull. The Swanscombe skull, is a human fossil consisting of three large cranial bones (two parietals and an occipital) of a young female found in well-stratified gravels of the River Thames at Swanscombe in Kent, England. Discovered in 1935, 1936, and 1955, the remains are dated to 300,000-400,000 years ago by chemical tests and by association with animal remains and Acheulean hand axes also found at the site. The Swanscombe skull predates the Neanderthals and is usually classified as an archaic Homo sapiens, also called Homo heidelbergensis (modified after Encyclopedia Britannica). Bookplate of paleontology writer Richard L. Casanova on the front endpaper. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in fine (as new) condition..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia: Inter-Disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics
Dordecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007. First edition. Pp. xiii, 464; numerous black-and-white photos, halftones, maps and line-drawings. Green pictorial laminated boards (hardback), lettered in white on the spine and front cover, 4to. This volume addresses a wide range of topics ad issues including hominid adaptations behaviors, and dispersals; the origin of and spread of food-producing economies; and the cultural, biological, and genetic relationship of foragers and settled communities (from the rear cover blurb). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain
Gosport, IN: Stone Age Institute Press, 2007. First edition. Pp. xviii, 296; numerous black-and-white photos, line-drawings, halftones and line-drawings. Color pictorial laminated boards (hardback), lettered in yellow, 4to. Taphonomy, the study of the processes leading to the fossilization of organic remains, is one of the most important avenues of inquiry in human origins research. This volume is a major contribution to taphonomic studies in paleoanthropology and natural history. Small signature of former owner on the title page. No other ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Hominid Origins: Inquiries Past and Present
Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1983. First edition. Pp. xxxiv, 238; some illustrations (line-drawings). Original white stiff wrappers, lettered in blue and red on the spine and front cover, 8vo. This is the first book of Kathleen J. Reichs, an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is one of 100 anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She went on to write 20 books of fiction based on real life forensic science. Reichs was also a producer for the TV series ""Bones"", which is loosely based on her novels, which in turn, are inspired by her life (from her Wikipedia entry). This book is based on a symposium at Northern Illinois University in 1976. The chapters of ""Hominid Origins"" include: Introduction by Kathleen Reichs; 1) A Short History of the Discovery and Early Study of the Australopithecines: The First Find to the Death of Robert Broom (1924-1951) by Charles A Reed; 2) Turning Points in Hominid Studies by Becky A. Sigmon; 3) Sediment Matrices of the South African Australopithecines: A Review by Karl Butzer; 4) Australopithecines: The Unwanted Ancestor by Milford Wolpoff; 5) The Kohl-Larsen Eyasi and Garusi Hominid Finds in Tanzania and Their Relation to Homo erectus by R.R.R. Protsch; 6) The Structure of Anatomical Fragments, and Their Combination: A Problem Underlying the Assessment of the Australopithecines by Charles Oxnard; 7) A Behavioral Reconstruction of Australopithecus by Adrienne Zihlman. Top outer corner with slight bump; otherwise a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
The Earliest Occupation of Europe
Leiden: University of Leiden, 1995. First edition. Pp. (6), 332; numerous text-figures (line-drawings of artifacts, geological sections, maps). Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in blue on the spine and front cover, blue pictorial dust jacket, 4to. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Workshop at Tautavel (France), 1993. Twenty-two Paleolithic archaeologists met at this workshop to discuss the earliest evidence for the human occupation of Europe. This volume presents the views of these archaeologists in 17 chapters. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Morphologie Evolutive de la tete et du cou chez l'homme et les grands singes actuels: Application aux hominides fossils. I: Ensembles Anatomiques Cervicaux
Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. First edition. Pp. 168, (2); numerous text-figures. Publisher’s original blue wrappers printed in white, 4to. A detailed, well-illustrated monograph in French on the evolutionary morphology of the head and neck in modern humans and the great apes with applications to fossil hominins. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Generalized quadrupeds, committed bipeds, and the shift to open habitats: An evolutionary model of hominid divergence
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1998. Pp. 78; 9 text-figures. Original printed white wrappers, lg 8vo. American Museum Novitates, no. 3250. This work presents a new model for hominid divergence based on a shift to open habitats. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg: Ein Beitrag zur Palaontologie des Menschen
Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908. First edition. Pp. (8), 67; 13 full-page plates (black-and-white photographs, radiographs, line-drawings, geological sections, maps), each with a descriptive leaf of text. Plain tan wrappers, folio (13.5 x 10.75 inches; 344 x 275 mm). Otto Schoetensack (1850 - 1912) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, born of financial means. During an archeological dig, he oversaw the worker Daniel Hartmann who found the lower jaw of a hominin, the oldest human fossil then known, which Schoetensack later described formally as Homo heidelbergensis (after Wiki). Later in 1998, paleoanthropologist G. Philip Rightmire used the nomen Homo heidelbergensis to link together archaic human cranial remains known from Europe, East Africa and South Africa under the same species name. Rightmire reaffirmed the lower jaw of Homo heidelbergensis as the type specimen. From the library of F. Duijvensz, with his circular name-stamp on the half-title page. No other ownership marks. A large margin copy with the page edges uncut but opened, some fraying to the top outer corner of the text and there are a few small marginal tears; a tight copy in very good condition..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
Il cranio Neandertaliano del Monte Circeo (Circeo I)
Roma: Lincei, 1974. First edition. Pp. 65; + 48 full page plates (black-and-white photos, line-drawings and diagrams), 3 text-figures, 11 tables. Original printed stiff gray wrappers, folio (13 x 9.5 inches). This monograph documents the discovery and analysis of a skull of a male Neanderthal found in Guattari grotto in Italy in 1939. The common names for the skull are Circeo 1 or Guattari 1 (after Wiki). The skull is thought to be about 50 to 60 thousand years old. The text is in Italian. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
The evolutionary significance of Ramapithecus
Minneapolis, MN: Burgess Publishing Company, 1975. First edition Pp. v, 32; 9 text-figures. Red pictorial wrappers, lettered in white, 8vo. In the series “Modules in Modern Physical Anthropology.” This module presents the arguments for and against Ramapithecus as an early human precursor. In the 1970s, the position Ramapithecus was much debated. These arguments centered on both morphological and biomolecular evidence. This module presents both sides of these arguments. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A near fine copy..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution
The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives
New York: Macmillan, 1995. First edition. Pp. 208; 143 color plates and maps. Pictorial black cloth lettered in gray on the spine with a photograph of a Neanderthal skull on front cover in gray. Color pictorial dust jacket, lettered in gray and black, lg 4to (11.75 x 9 inches). This is the hardcover first edition. Tattersall marshals the best available evidence to unravel the mysteries of the Neandertals - who they were, how they lived, how they succeeded for so long, and - the most intriguing question of all - what happened to them. Small signature of former owner on the half-title page. No other ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..
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Catalogue: Human Evolution