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    Our Oldest Companions

    Pat Shipman

    The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and emotional characteristics of both species. Pat Shipman looks to fossil records and…

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    Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

    Pat Shipman

    The discovery of a fossil with avian feathers and a reptilian skull seemed to offer tangible proof of Darwin’s theory of evolution. This scientific detective story uncovers the origins of…

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    To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa

    Pat Shipman

    Joining the ranks of West with the Night and Out of Africa, this is the extraordinary true story of an unforgettable female adventurer from an award-winning author.

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    To the Heart of the Nile

    Pat Shipman

    Florence Baker’s extraordinary life from the Hungarian revolution to Ottoman empire harem, to being saved from slavery by wealthy English adventurer Sam Baker to a life of danger, excitement and…

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    Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

    Pat Shipman

    In this persuasive new biography, Shipman takes a fresh look at the alluring, scandalous, and most notorious female spy in history.

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    Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs

    Pat Shipman

    The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and emotional characteristics of both species. Pat Shipman looks to fossil records and…

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    The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

    Pat Shipman

    With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are the closest known relatives to humans.

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    The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human

    Pat Shipman

    A bold, illuminating new take on the love of animals that drove human evolution.

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    The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins

    Alan Walker,Pat Shipman

    In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists in northern Kenya discovered the most complete skeleton to date of a classic missing link between apes and humans. Now team leader Alan Walker…

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    Neandertals, The:Changing the Image of Mankind

    Erik Trinkaus,Pat Shipman

    In 1856 - as Darwin was completing Origin of Species - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in…

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    The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul

    Alan Walker,Pat Shipman

    Detailing the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution, this book is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed…

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    The Human Skeleton

    Pat Shipman,Alan Walker,David Bichell

    This is the most comprehensive approach ever made to the human skeleton as a biological entity. It provides a holistic view, from the molecular and cellular level up to functional…

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    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist’s Wife in the Eastern Archipelago

    Anna Forbes,Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Pat Shipman

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind

    Professor of Anthropology Erik Trinkaus (Washington University St Louis),Pat Shipman

    To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals’ fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a moral darkness that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 1970s, the Neandertals were being praised…

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    The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind

    Professor of Anthropology Erik Trinkaus (Washington University St Louis),Pat Shipman

    To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals’ fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a moral darkness that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 1970s, the Neandertals were being praised…

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