The Ape in the Tree - An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul

Informationen zum Autor Alan Walker is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. A Royal Society and MacArthur Fellow, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he and Pat Shipman won the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones . Pat Shipman is the author of many books, including The Invaders , The Animal Connection , and The Ape in the Tree (with Alan Walker), which won the W. W. Howells Award from the American Anthropological Association. Shipman is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Geographical Society of London. Klappentext "Proconsul" have profound implications for the very definition of humanness. This book speaks not only of an ape in a tree but also of the ape in our tree. Zusammenfassung Detailing the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution, this book is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Shipman, A. Walker, Alan Walker
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2005
• EAN: 9780674016750
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01675-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; SCIENCE / Paleontology, paleontology, Palaeontology