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This is a story of research on the cutting edge of palaentology and evolutionary theory. It delves into the excitement and frustrations of excavations at the fossil sites of Taung and Makapansgat, the South African sites that provided evidence elucidating the initial conditions of human origins.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
3. A Tale of Two Sites
4. Speeding Up the Pace of Evolution
5. Rebels Without a Cause
6. The Mother of Invention
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."
8. Autocatalysis
9. The Beginning and the End of Evolution
Notes
Literature Cited
Index

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      Publisher Rutgers University Press
      Published 1 June 2000
      ISBN-13 9780813527833
      978-0813527833
      ISBN-10 081352783X
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      Evolution / Evolutionary biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a story of research on the cutting edge of palaentology and evolutionary theory. It delves into the excitement and frustrations of excavations at the fossil sites of Taung and Makapansgat, the South African sites that provided evidence elucidating the initial conditions of human origins.

      Table of Contents
      Preface
      1. Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos
      2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
      3. A Tale of Two Sites
      4. Speeding Up the Pace of Evolution
      5. Rebels Without a Cause
      6. The Mother of Invention
      7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."
      8. Autocatalysis
      9. The Beginning and the End of Evolution
      Notes
      Literature Cited
      Index

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