The Wisdom of Bones
A groundbreaking book concerning the excavation of Nariokotome Boy, which asserts, among other things, that Homo Erectus lacked language.
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- 1997
- ISBN-13
- 9781857998740
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Human evolutionPaleoanthropologyHomo erectus
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeWon(1997)
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