Ancestral Passions by Virginia Morell

Ancestral Passions by Virginia Morell

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A look at the family that answered many questions about when and where humankind began. From Louis Leakey's breakthrough discovery that human beings evolved in Africa millions of years ago, Morell chronicles how the Leakeys changed our understanding of our relationship to the primates.

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Ancestral Passions by Virginia Morell

A look at the family that answered many questions about when and where humankind began. From Louis Leakey's breakthrough discovery that human beings evolved in Africa millions of years ago, Morell chronicles how the Leakeys changed our understanding of our relationship to the primates.
Virginia Morell is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine and a contributing correspondent to Science. She has also written for Smithsonian, DiscoverThe New York Times MagazineInternational WildlifeAudubonSlate, and Outside, among other publications. She and her husband, writer Michael McRae, live in southern Oregon, on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, where they hike every day with their Scotch Collies, Buckaroo and Annie Oakley.
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ISBN 13 9780684824703
ISBN 10 0684824701
Title Ancestral Passions
Author Virginia Morell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 1996-09-03
Number of pages 640
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.