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As a child, Dr. Tess Brannick learned there was something big living in the Pacific Northwest. Now she's going to prove it. __________________________________________ For centuries, legends of a giant hairy beast roaming the Pacific Northwest have made their way into the collective understanding. Despite the reports, conclusive proof of bigfoot has never been found. But Dr. Tess Brannick has a plan to change all that. Tess has spent years studying to be up to the task of finding the elusive creature. And now, a year into her research in northern California, she knows she's on the precipice of a world-shattering discovery. But the more she learns, the more confused she becomes. Nothing is as she expected. And as a new threat, a threat she unintentionally introduced, appears on the horizon, Tess must come to a decision. Who should she be - the scientist or the human being? __________________________________________ About: R.D. Brady is the author of the popular Belial Series. Hominid is her second book outside the series but packs in the same facts, myths and science that made the Belial Series such a hit. Note: Hominid is R.D. Brady's eighth book and her other seven are also available on Amazon.com

Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy. Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended―by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport. Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around and an explosive murder trial. How can he possibly prove his innocence when he has no idea what actually happened to Ponter? Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Pp. x, 598; numerous black-and-white photos of early hominins, phylogenies, geological diagrams. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, light purple dust jacket lettered in black on the spine and front cover, thick lg 8vo. The 24 chapters of this volume, all by noted paleoanthropologists, archaeologists and geologists, are arranged into four parts: I. The Sites, II. Geological, Faunal and Archaeological Evidence, III. Anatomical Evidence and IV. The Interpretation of Hominid Diversity. This volume was the result of a conference in January 1974 held at New York University. This conference was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the harsh landscape of the Pleistocene Steppes, home to the woolly mammoth. It is also a journey through space, following the migrations of mammal species that evolved on other continents and eventually met to compete or coexist in Cenozoic Europe. Finally, it is a journey through the complexity of mammalian evolution, a review of the changes and adaptations that have allowed mammals to flourish and become the dominant land vertebrates on Earth. With the benefit of recent advances in geological and geophysical techniques, Jordi Agustí and Mauricio Antón are able to trace the processes of mammalian evolution as never before; events that hitherto appeared synchronous or at least closely related can now be distinguished on a scale of hundreds or even dozens of thousands of years, revealing the dramatic importance of climactic changes both major and minor. Evolutionary developments are rendered in magnificent illustrations of the many extraordinary species that once inhabited Europe, detailing their osteology, functional anatomy, and inferred patterns of locomotion and behavior. Based on the latest research and field work, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids transforms our understanding of how mammals evolved and changed the face of the planet.

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The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution provides a provocative discussion and analysis of what psychologists have to say about the evolution of the human mind. To what extent is the human mind like that of an ape? Is language uniquely human? Is the human mind a product of biological evolution or cultural influences? Until recently, these were questions answered by anthropologists and archaeologists. Then about ten years ago a new field, evolutionary psychology burst onto the evolutionary scene. Now, in The Descent of Mind a group of well-known international psychologists in such diverse fields as comparative psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and psychology of language, examine in temporal sequence, the human mind at various stages of evolution. The book begins with a thorough overview of what is known of the non-primate mind and its evolution, then discusses the pre-hominid of 20 million years ago and ends with contemporary human behavior. The contributors cover such topics as human cognitive evolution, predicting hominid intelligence from brain size, the evolution of deep social mind in humans, the rise of the metamind, and the origins of teleological thought. Students and researchers alike in psychology, anthropology, evolution, archaeology, and ethology will find this book interesting and informative. It provides a range of provocative answers to the timeless question of what it means to be human.

A report on the work at some West Sussex quarries which led to the discovery of a thigh-bone from the oldest human ever found in Britain, the 500,000 years old `Boxgrove man'. The finds assemblage included flint handaxes and other tools which gave a clear picture of Middle Pleistocene methods of hunting and butchery. The authors examine the results of the rescue excavations in quarries 1 and 2, 1983-1996, and present results from 1983-1989 together with subsequent research and analysis to provide a detailed geological and archaeological record. (English Heritage 1998)

Signed. First Edition. Signed by the author and inscribed to Simon Karlinsky on the front free page. No other markings in book. Simon Karlinsky is the late distinguished scholar of Russian literature at University of California, Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. DJ with shelf wear to edges. Binding is tight. Lighly read.

Members of Cosmic Dead, Droves, Public Service, and Old Guard. Putting the PMA back into punk rock, Acid Cannibals are bring you Horny For Tomorrow through Hominid Sounds. Following their debut 7" Why Not Every Night (At War With False Noise) (2018), Horny For Tomorrow brings four tracks of joyous punk rock with a focus on positivity to lift our collective spirits. A much-needed contribution to a collective headspace in a world where it seems like we are being pumped full of negativity on an hou

'To qualify as human, a hominid has, so to say, to justify himself by works: the criteria are no longer biological so much as cultural'. In this 1977 book, Professor Grahame Clark goes on to trace the origins and development of human culture, in all its diversity, throughout the world. He follows the intellectual, material and social progress of mankind in each major region, from the earliest stone industries of two million years ago to the gradual and still incomplete attainment of literacy over the last five thousand years. He takes full account of peoples still preliterate when encountered in recent times by anthropologists as well as of those which nourished the great historic civilizations of mankind. Throughout he emphasizes the close relationship between environment and the character and speed of cultural development. The narrative is generously illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps, and there is a carefully selected list of references to the main sources used.

A disturbing report of the current global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, Legionnaires' disease, Ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with microbes, from the earliest hominids' probable encounters with bubonic plague, to the spread of infections through trade, conquest and empire, to the problems awaiting the human race in the near future. Using research from the fields of genetics, virology and epidemiology, he concludes that today's epidemics are part of an ancient pattern: whenever people make radical changes in their lifestyle and environment, disease flourishes.

From initial hominid settlement to the dawn of history...This book describes the human prehistory of the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia from initial hominid settlement, more than one million years ago, to the eve of the historical Hindu--Buddhist and Islamic civilizations.The archaeological record provides the central theme, and additional chapters deal with essential information from the palaeoenvironmental sciences and the disciplines of biological anthropology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The overall goal of the work is to bring a multidisciplinary focus to bear on questions concerning past cultural and biological developments within the region.Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago interests those concerned with the fields of Pleistocence environments, and archaeology, as also students and researchers with an active interest in Southeast Asia.From the PrefaceThis book presents a multidisciplinary reconstruction of the prehistory of the modern nations of Indonesia and Malaysia, as viewed from the perspective of the whole South-East Asian and Australasian region. Since modern nation boundaries have little meaning for the student of the remote past, I refer to the region in the following chapters as "the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago". Several interlinked aspects of prehistory are reviewed, mainly from data produced by the disciplines of biological anthropology, linguistics and archaeology, and the overall time-span runs from about 2 million years ago to approximately AD 1000. In general, the book ceases with the historical civilisations of the first millennium AD, although it should be realised that prehistory sensu stricto continued in some remote regions to almost the present day.

Sir John Eccles tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as humans possessed of reflective consciousness.

Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. In this book the author argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language and, in fact, constituted a preadaptation for the speech and culture that developed among later hominids. Long before humans could speak with words, they communicated through body language their emotional dispositions; and it is the neurological wiring of the brain for these emotional languages that represented the key evolutionary breakthrough for our species. How did natural selection work on the basic ape anatomy and neuroanatomy to create the hominid line? The author suggests that what distinguished our ancestors from other apes was the development of an increased capacity for sociality and organization, crucial for survival on the African savanna. All apes display a propensity for weak ties, individualism, mobility, and autonomy that was, and is today, useful in arboreal and woodland habitats but served them poorly when our ancestors began to move onto the African plain during the late Miocene. The challenge for natural selection was to enhance traits in the species that would foster the social ties necessary for survival in the new environment. The author suggests that the result was a development of certain areas of the primate brain that encouraged strong emotional ties, allowing our ancestors to build higher levels of social solidarity. Our basic neurological wiring continues to reflect this adaptive development. From a sociological perspective that is informed by evolutionary biology, primatology, and neurology, the book examines the current neurological bases of our emotional repertoire and their implications for our social actions.

Did our ancestors live in tropical forests? Although we see the rainforest as a bountiful environment teeming with life forms, most anthropologists and archaeologists have long viewed these areas as too harsh for human occupation during the pre-agricultural stages of hominid development.Under the Canopy turns conventional wisdom on its head by providing a well-documented, geographically diverse overview of Stone Age sites in the wet tropics. New research indicates that, as humanity and its precursors increased their geographical and ecological ranges, rainforests were settled at a much earlier period than had previously been thought.Featuring the work of leading scholars from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Malaysia, Panama, Spain, and the United States, Under the Canopy creates a new niche in paleolithic studies: the archaeology of tropical rainforests. This book provides the first synthesis of archaeological research in early foraging sites across the rainforest zone, and indicates that tropical forests could harbor important clues to human evolution, origins of modern behavior, cultural diversity, and human impact on tropical ecosystems.

Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous 1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century, when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and speculated that a proto-hominid "missing link" might still be alive in remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a piece of a monster that the media and the public still can't get enough of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual thinking―and how obsession and myth are created out of it.

The Bigfoot Files (1892264153) Because of growing interest in the subject of Bigfoot, author, Peter Guttilla, has assembled the most complete information guide on the oldest living hominid available today. The Big Foot Files contains 296 pages of case studies, first hand reports, and previously unpublished articles. This incredible book also contains 16 restored and enhanced photographs plus 24 brand new artistic renderings by graphic artist, Lucy West.

Formed in London 2010, Death Pedals have spent seven years pedaling their own brand of hell for leather punk rock n' roll up and down the UK. Their involvement in I Hate The Kids, Rip This Joint, This Is DIY, USA Nails, Dead Arms, Shitwife, Lupins, Bear Bites Horse Studio and most recently Hominid Sounds, has helped to define their reputation as an integral part of London's DIY underground community, whilst also establishing themselves as an aggressive, adrenaline fueled, must-see live band. The

Chronicles the period in evolution during which human beings progressed from simians to hominids, citing the pivotal roles of climate, ecology, and geological movements while predicitng future changes