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    Close encounters with humankind : a paleoanthropologist investigates our evolving species / Sang-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon.

    • Title:Close encounters with humankind : a paleoanthropologist investigates our evolving species / Sang-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon.
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    • Author/Creator:Lee, Sang-Hee, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Yoon, Shin-Young, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Human evolution.
      Paleoanthropology.
      Fossil hominids.
    • Description:304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:Explores how the field of paleoanthropology enables insights into some of the world's leading evolutionary questions, exploring such topics as the life cycles of ancient people, the origins of social nature, and the common traits between modern humans and Neanderthals.
    • Notes:"Originally published in Korea [©2015] by ScienceBooks Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul, a division of Minumsa publishing Group ... English translation ©2018"--Title page verso
      Volume based on essays originally published in Gwa Hak Dong A, a science magazine for the general public.--Introduction.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
    • ISBN:9780393634822
      0393634825
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Are We Cannibals?
      2. Birth of Fatherhood
      3. Who Were the First Hominin Ancestors?
      4. Big-Brained Babies Give Moms Big Grief
      5. Meat Lovers R Us
      6. Got Milk?
      7. Gene for Snow White
      8. Granny Is an Artist
      9. Did Farming Bring Prosperity?
      10. Peking Man and the Yakuza
      11. Asia Challenges Africa's Stronghold on the Birthplace of Humanity
      12. Cooperation Connects You and Me
      13. King Kong
      14. Breaking Back
      15. In Search of the Most Humanlike Face
      16. Our Changing Brains
      17. You Are a Neanderthal!
      18. Molecular Clock Does Not Keep Time
      19. Denisovans: The Asian Neanderthals?
      20. Hobbits
      21. Seven Billion Humans, One Single Race?
      22. Are Humans Still Evolving?.
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