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The wisdom of the bones : in search of human origins
What does the fossil record say about where humans came from, and how did one boy's skeleton change the answer?
At a glance
- Author
- Alan Walker, Pat Shipman
Why read it
- You will learn how scientists read age, sex and growth from a skeleton, as with a young boy who died long ago
- You will understand why fossil hunters shifted from listing species to asking how ancestors actually lived
- You will question what makes us human, using the author's answer that it is a way of being built into bones, muscles and brain
Who it is for
- A reader curious how scientists work out ancient lives from bones
- A museum visitor who wants to follow human evolution displays
- A student weighing how science corrects old assumptions
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