Ann Gibbons
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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
Ann Gibbons
The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits. The First Human is the story of four international teams obsessed with solving the mystery of human evolution and of the intense rivalries that propel them.
Ann Gibbons introduces the various maverick fossil hunters and describes their most significant discoveries in Africa. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the intense challenges of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.
