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Evolution The Human Story [Hardcover]

Dr. Alice Roberts (Author)
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Publication Date: 1 Sep 2011

Come face to face with our ancestors

Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.

This is the first time that the story of evolution has been documented in such amazing visual detail thanks to the work of renowned Dutch paleoartists, Kennis and Kennis. Staggeringly realistic CGI and model reconstructions from original fossils bring us face to face with our ancestors portraying them as never before. Plus, Dr Alice Roberts shares her extensive knowledge helping answer all the big questions and more.

Evolution: The Human Story is packed with all the latest discoveries and profiles every human ancestor to date from Ardipithecus ramidus to Homo neanderthalensis. An essential read for anyone fascinated in finding out where we come from.

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1 Sep 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1405361654
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405361651
  • Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 2.2 x 30.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr Alice Roberts is a qualified doctor, anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, and anthropologist. She teaches at Bristol University and has presented a number of television programmes. Adrie and Alfons Kennis are twin brother paleoartists from the Netherlands who specialise in 3D reconstructions of animals and humans.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book 19 Dec 2011
By Katrine Bergkvist Hansen
Format:Hardcover
I absolutely love this book!
It is so beautiful.

There's a lot of pictures and paintings, printed on big pages, most of them full size (little larger than A4 paper size). Exceptionally good reconstructions of our ancestors, even paintings of their organization in the landscape. Very good descriptions to accompany the pictures and paintings. Easy to read.

Everyone with just a little interest in how we evolved should buy this book. Even children would love to look at the pictures and it is so easy to read that older children can read it alone.

With a background in biology and a special interest in human evolution, I still find this book special. It is the perfect book to supply all the academic textbooks that is lacking what this book has - pictures and paintings! :)
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Dr. Alice Roberts. 9 Oct 2011
By F. Wallace
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This book sets out a very difficult story in a clear, logical manner. It uses modern graphic techniques to illustrate very complex details in a concise and punchy way. I wanted to read it all before putting it down. I have worked in science for many years and still learned from this book but I also had no hesitation in arranging for another copy to be gift wrapped and sent to my granchildrens address. They love it. I recomend it unconditionally.Evolution The Human Story
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book 6 Oct 2011
By Mr. Richard Mabe
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A comparatively quick journey through the evidence for human evolution with some amazing reconstructions of earlier humam forms that have been discovered. There is much to consider and learn in this book but it's as good and clear a read on the subject I have read which anyone with reasonable intelligence will appreciate. The book helps to fill in many of the missing links in human evolution with evidence based in reality few will be able to argue with though I am sure some will refuse to accept due to religious convictions.

For those lucky people living in the real world 'Evolution The Human Story' is a gem. Thanks to Alice Roberts and all the contributors for a fascinating book. I find evolution an illuminating science and the more I study it the greater my feeling of satisfaction that it really is the explanation for the development of life on our planet and this book adds to that feeling and understanding.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A book full of magnificent illustrations
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This book is beautiful with stunning pictures, reconstructions, charts, graphs and time lines. If you are interested in origins of humans it is facinating and easy to follow and... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Colourful visual book
wonderfully illustrated guide to the ancient homo species. Particularly like the reconstructions of how species looked. Excellent visual book with good explanations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific!
Even though I am still reading this I have found it to be an amazing account of the possible evolution of the human specie. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
Everybody interested in evolution should have this book. A lot of material to study, beautiful images to look at, comprehensive source.
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This book is plain amazing. Its very visual. it makes you want to read it, many photos and information that you wouldn't find from other sources. Very well collected and written.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Model of its Kind
As a basic primer on the story of human evolution, it would be hard to fault this book. While it isn't very sophisticated from an intellectual point of view, that isn't a criticism... Read more
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