Oldovai Gorge 2 Part Set: Volume 4, The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of Homo Habilis
Author: Prof. Phillip V. Tobias (1925 - 2012)
Signed and dated by the author with a personal message to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Published by Cambridge University Press (1991)
ISBN 10: 0521200725 ISBN 13: 9780521200721
Used Hardcover Books in Dust Jackets (Box set)
Condition: Fine. Books are in Used-Fine condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. May show signs of minor shelf wear. Price mark on Parts V-IX (See second photograph below)
Size: 29 cm (H) X 23 cm (L) X 9 cm (W)
Weight: 4,5 kg
This fourth volume marks the definitive publication of the most important fossil finds in palaeoanthropology: Olduvai hominids 7. 13, 16 and 24 (popularly known to workers in the field as Jonny's Child, Cindy, George and Twiggy). Found from 1960 in Olduvai Gorge and dating from 1.9 to 1.6 million years ago, they were identified in 1964 by Louis Leakey and the author amidst great controversy as a hitherto unrecognised species of the genus Homo, named by then Homo habilis on account of its apparent tool-making abilities.
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