by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857998740
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«The Wisdom of Bones» is the popular science essay by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman, published by Orion in paperback (352 pages, in English).
It starts from the 1984 discovery, in northern Kenya, of the almost complete skeleton of a Homo erectus from 1.5 million years ago, the Nariokotome boy. The authors explain how fossilized bones are read to reconstruct the diet, diseases and behaviour of early hominids, and review the search for the missing link.
Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 1997.
For those who enjoy palaeoanthropology, human evolution and science told for a broad audience.
