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52 Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews, The Complete World of Human Evolution, New York:

Thames & Hudson, 2005, p. 109.

53 Russell L. Ciochon, “The Ape That Was,” online at

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ebioanth/giganto.html

54 Ciochon.

55 Stringer and Andrews, p. 32.

56 Susan Linnee, “First Hominid Footprints Being Covered Over in Tanzania,” Connecti￾cut News-Times, September 16, 1996, online at

http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00322.html

57 Robin McKie, “Man’s Earliest Footsteps May Be Lost Forever,” Observer, January 13,

2008, online at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/13/archaeology.oldest.human.tracks.

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Index

Page numbers for illustrations

are in boldface

Africa

Australopithecus africanus, 28, 29, 34, 59,

62, 81–83, 82, 88, 92, 98

fossil sites in, 95

Great Rift, 69–70, 70, 85

hominin fossil discovery, 67–69, 69

humanlike fossils in, 27, 43–45, 45,

48–51, 49, 50, 59

Leakeys’ discoveries in, 63–64, 64–65,

70–71, 72, 73, 74–75, 75

Plesianthropus fossils, 60–61

Taung child discovery, 9–11, 10, 18, 23,

27, 28–29, 43, 50, 57, 59, 60, 62, 77

Alemseged, Zeresenay, 76–77, 76

Andrews, Peter, 92

Ankarapithecus fossils, 40

apes, 93

ancient, 36–41, 37

early humanlike, 50–51, 50

immunological distance between humans

and, 51–53

link between humans and, 21–22, 23

Ardipithecus kadabba, 50–51, 70, 90

Australopithecus, 50–51, 50, 61

australopiths, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 68–69, 69,

76–77, 76, 78

Australopithecus afarensis, 68, 73, 76–77,

76, 81, 81, 88, 99

Australopithecus africanus, 28, 29, 34, 59,

62, 81–83, 82, 88, 92, 98

Australopithecus anamensis, 79–81, 80

Australopithecus bahrelghazali, 84–85

Australopithecus garhi, 83–84, 84

bipedalism, 89–93, 93

classification of, 78–79

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