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Biological Sciences,
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We are pleased to send you the following information about this
newly published book:

Lowly Origin
Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up
Jonathan Kingdon

To read a sample chapter, please visit:
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7488.html

Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a
characteristic human trait but one of the things that made
us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk
on two legs, they began to do many of the things that apes
cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools,
communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. Titled
after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and
written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly
Origin is the first book to explain the sources and
consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the
way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us
a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of
us learned about in school.

  Jonathan Kingdon uses the very latest findings from
ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to build a new and
up-to-date account of how four-legged apes became two-legged
hominins. He describes what it took to get up onto two legs
as well as the protracted consequences of that step--some of
which led straight to modern humans and others to very
different bipeds. This allows him to make sense of recently
unearthed evidence suggesting that no fewer than twenty
species of humans and hominins have lived and become
extinct. Following the evolution of two-legged creatures
from our earliest lowly forebears to the present, Kingdon
concludes with future options for the last surviving biped.

A major new narrative of human evolution, Lowly Origin is
the best available account of what it meant--and what it
means--to walk on two feet.

Jonathan Kingdon is a Senior Research Associate at the
Institute of Biological Anthropology and Department of
Zoology of Oxford University. He is the author of and artist
for numerous books, including Self-Made Man and Island
Africa (Princeton). The Millennium issue of American
Scientist named Kingdon's Atlas of Evolution in Africa one
of the "100 books that shaped a century of science."

0-691-05086-4 Cloth $35.00 US and L24.95
416 pages. 55 halftones. 16 line illus. 2 tables. 22 maps.

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