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The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
by G. J. Sawyer, Viktor Deak, Esteban Sarmiento, Richard Milner
from Yale University Press
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Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Beautifully Diagramed/Ilustrated 
The illustrations/re-creations from the skeletons along with the time line is the best done I've ever seen and kept me fascinated.
Writing is excellent and challenging.
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We aren't sure of anything 
I can totally understand why we don't have too much factual information about time periods that are so long ago; but the evidence for these Species is so limited, we can't draw any conclusions. A lot of the time even the existence of the species is still being debated. I'm writing my review about 160 pages in, out of 250 and its been slow, technical reading. About the shape and size of teeth, the location of where the bones where found, etc. No fun stuff so far, we really don't much about anything that... more info
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Meet the family...
This is a great book to have at home, one to read on the couch while drinking tea and listening to the rain outside the windows. With short stories and real photos to try to help us picture and understand those early humans who use to roam the surface of Earth. Hairy, scarred, scared and yet intelligent, emotional, the start of us, this book tries to help us understand them without going off into a fictional fantasy world. The book deals with diet, tools, and habitat with some guesses at behavior. Great for... more info
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One of many. 
Discussions surrounding human origins have become increasingly complicated, but this book provides a useful means of looking at the variability that paleoanthropologists are finding in the fossil record. This doesn't mean that every word or species assignment is without debate, but it is a useful tool for looking at the variety of species that either share deep ancestry or are direct ancestors of modern human beings.
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