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27 “For the first 99.99999 percent of our history . . .” Tattersall, The Human Odyssey, p. 60.
28 “She is our earliest ancestor . . .” PBS Nova, June 3, 1997, “In Search of Human Origins.”
29 “discounted the 106 bones of the hands and feet . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 181.
30 “Lucy and her kind did not locomote . . .” Tattersall, The Monkey in the Mirror, p. 89.
31 “Only when these hominids had to travel . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 91.
32 “Lucy's hips and the muscular arrangement of her pelvis . . .” National Geographic, “Face-to-Face with Lucy's Family,” March 1996, p. 114.
33 “One, discovered by Meave Leakey . . .” New Scientist, March 24, 2001, p. 5.
34 “the oldest hominid yet found . . .” Nature, “Return to the Planet of the Apes,” July 12, 2001, p. 131.
35 “found a hominid almost seven million years old . . .” Scientific American, “An Ancestor to Call Our Own,” January 2003, pp. 54–63.
36 “Some critics believe that it was not human . . .” Nature, “Face to Face with Our Past,” December 19–26, 2002, p. 735.
37 “when you are a small, vulnerable australopithecine . . .” Stevens, p. 3; and Drury, pp. 335–36.
38 “but that the forests left them . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Being Human, p. 135.
39 “For over three million years . . .” PBS Nova, “In Search of Human Origins,” first broadcast August 1999.
40 “yet the australopithecines never took advantage . . .” Drury, p. 338.
41 “‘Perhaps,' suggests Matt Ridley, ‘we ate them.' ” Ridley, Genome, p. 33.
42 “they make up only 2 percent of the body's mass . . .” Drury, p. 345.
43 “The body is in constant danger . . .” Brown, p. 216.
44 “C. Loring Brace stuck doggedly to the linear concept . . .” Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, p. 204.
45 “Homo erectus is the dividing line . . .” Swisher et al., p. 131.
46 “It was of a boy aged between about nine and twelve . . .” National Geographic, May 1997, p. 90.
47 “the Turkana boy was ‘very emphatically one of us.' ” Tattersall, The Monkey in the Mirror, p. 105.
48 “Someone had looked after her.” Walker and Shipman, p. 165.
49 “they were unprecedentedly adventurous . . .” Scientific American, “Food for Thought,” December 2002, pp. 108–15.
50 “couldn't be compared with anything else . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 132.
51 “Tattersall and Schwartz don't believe that goes nearly far enough.” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 169.
CHAPTER 29 THE RESTLESS APE
1 “They made them in the thousands . . .” Ian Tattersall, interview by author, American Museum of Natural History, New York, May 6, 2002.
2 “people may have first arrived substantially earlier . . .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 16, 2001.
3 “There's just a whole lot we don't know . . .” Alan Thorne, interview by author, Canberra, August 20, 2001.
4 “the most recent major event in human evolution . . .” Tattersall, The Human Odyssey, p. 150.
5 “whether any or all of them actually represent our species . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 226.
6 “odd, difficult-to-classify and poorly known . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 412.
7 “No Neandertal remains have ever been found in north Africa . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 209.
8 “known to paleoclimatology as the Boutellier interval . . .” Fagan, The Great Journey, p. 105.
9 “They survived for at least a hundred thousand years . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 204.
10 “In 1947, while doing fieldwork in the Sahara . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 300.
11 “Neandertals lacked the intelligence or fiber to compete . . .” Nature, “Those Elusive Neanderthals,” October 25, 2001, p. 791.
12 “Modern humans neutralized this advantage . . .” Stevens, p. 30.
13 “1.8 liters for Neandertals versus 1.4 for modern people . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, p. 301.
14 “Rhodesian man . . . lived as recently as 25,000 years ago . . .” Canby, The Epic of Man, page unnoted.
15 “the front end looking like a donkey . . .” Science, “What—or Who—Did In the Neandertals?” September 14, 2001, p. 1981.
16 “all