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Ancient bones : unearthing the astonishing new story of how we became human / Madelaine Bohme, Rudiger Braun & Florian Breier ; translation, Jane Billinghurst ; foreword by David R. Begun.

A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution. Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Bohme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined. The fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history. His nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa, the so-called birthplace of humanity but in Europe, and his features suggest we evolved much differently than scientists once believed. In prose that reads like a gripping detective novel, Ancient Bones interweaves the story of the dig that changed everything with the fascinating answer to a previously undecided and now pressing question. How, exactly, did we become human? Placing Bohme's discovery alongside former theories of human evolution, the authors show how this remarkable find (and others in Eurasia) are forcing us to rethink the story we've been told about how we came to be, a story that has been our guiding narrative, until now.

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C9009188635 599.938 BOH
Adult nonfiction   Smithfield Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781922310347 (paperback)
Dewey 599.938
Author Bohme, Madelaine author.
Title Ancient bones : unearthing the astonishing new story of how we became human / Madelaine Bohme, Rudiger Braun & Florian Breier ; translation, Jane Billinghurst ; foreword by David R. Begun.
Edition Australian edition.
Published Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe, 2020.
Physical description xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A leading palaeontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution. Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Bohme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined. The fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history. His nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa, the so-called birthplace of humanity but in Europe, and his features suggest we evolved much differently than scientists once believed. In prose that reads like a gripping detective novel, Ancient Bones interweaves the story of the dig that changed everything with the fascinating answer to a previously undecided and now pressing question. How, exactly, did we become human? Placing Bohme's discovery alongside former theories of human evolution, the authors show how this remarkable find (and others in Eurasia) are forcing us to rethink the story we've been told about how we came to be, a story that has been our guiding narrative, until now.
Subject Human beings
Evolution (Biology)
Human evolution
Additional author Braun, Rudiger author.
Breier, Florian author.
Billinghurst, Jane, 1958- translator.
Begun, David R. author of introduction, etc.
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