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Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution
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Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Carl C. Swisher III; Garniss H. Curtis; Roger Lewin


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'Garniss, lend me your knife for a second, will you, ' I whispered. So begins Java Man, the inside story of how one discovery--a human skull found on the island of Java--by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man, Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years, an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin, this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate. Originally published by Scribner
2000 ISBN: 0-684-80000-4

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Three separate journeys converge in this book.

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'Garniss, lend me your knife for a second, will you, ' I whispered. So begins Java Man, the inside story of how one discovery--a human skull found on the island of Java--by two geologists shook the foundations of science. By uncovering new evidence about the hominid known as Java man, Carl C. Swisher and Garniss H. Curtis were able to date his fossil remains at 1.7 million years, an age that stunned the scientific community because it pushed back the time when humans migrating out of Africa first reached Eurasia by nearly one million years. Cowritten by the popular science writer Roger Lewin, this is a gripping and informative account of the discovery that breathed new life into the human origins debate.

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  • Title Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of Human Evolution
  • Author Carl C. Swisher III; Garniss H. Curtis; Roger Lewin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226787343 / 0226787346
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.05 x 0.57 in (22.81 x 15.37 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human evolution, Java man
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001037337
  • Dewey Decimal Code 569.6

About the author

Carl C. Swisher III is an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Rutgers University. Garniss H. Curtis, a pioneer of modern techniques for dating ancient rocks, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.
Roger Lewin is the author of seventeen books, including Bones of Contention and Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, both available from the University of Chicago Press.
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