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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	GN282 .W35 2013		AVAILABLE

Author	Walter, Chip.
Title	Last ape standing : the seven-million year story of how and why we survived / Chip Walter.
Edition	First U.S. edition.
OCLC	795174354
ISBN	9780802717566 (hbk.)
	080271756X (hbk.)
Publisher	New York : Walker & Company, 2013.
Description	xiv, 220 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Fossil hominids.
	Primates -- Evolution.
	Human evolution.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-205) and index.
Contents	The battle for survival -- The invention of childhood (or, Why it hurts to have a baby) -- Learning machines -- Tangled webs : the moral primate -- The everywhere ape -- Cousin creatures -- Beauties in the beast -- The voice inside your head -- Epilogue: The next human.
Summary	Seeks to explain why homo sapiens survived while other hominids did not, drawing on recent scientific discoveries and examining the survival value of such factors as premature births, long childhoods, and an extremely social nature.
	"Tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's brutal and capricious ways we stand here today, the only surviving humans, and the planet's most dominant species"--P. [4] of jacket.

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