Quarry: Closing in on the Missing Link

by Noel T. Boaz

Book Overview

In this work, leading anthropologist Noel T. Boaz describes how innovative research techniques have transformed our understanding of our earliest human ancestors. By telling the story of his own 20-year quest for the missing link in northern and eastern Africa, Boaz shows how palaeo-anthropology no longer focuses exclusively on individual fossil specimens, but increasingly on geological, faunal, and floral evidence, integrating data from many fields...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029045010
• ISBN13: 9780029045015
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"