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This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to th

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 Introduction
2 Finding our place
3 Fossil hominins: their discovery and context
4 Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation
5 Early hominins: possible and probable
6 Archaic and transitional hominins
7 Pre-modern Homo
8 Modern Homo
9 The future of human evolution
Timeline of important events and discoveries relevant to human origins and evolution
Further reading
Index

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