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INDEX
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 159, 161, 166, 167, 171, 174, 218, 220
Adventures in the Bone Trade (Kalb), 158–59
Adventures with the Missing Link (Dart), 85
Afar region, 154–55, 158, 159, 163, 165–66, 220
Africa:
as “cradle of mankind,” 90, 94–95, 105, 173
hominin fossil evidence in, 165, 199, 214, 215
see also specific regions and countries
African Genesis (Ardrey), 109
Ahlberg, Per, 119, 147
Alemsegad, Zeresenay, 174, 181
altruism, Neanderthal, 38–40
American Museum of Natural History, New York, 19, 32, 92, 124, 133, 140, 147, 173
Andersson, Johan Gunnar, 122
–27, 131, 134, 240
Anthropologie, L’, 23, 29–30
apes:
fossil, 2, 67, 69
hominin relationship to, 25, 28, 53, 89, 102, 197–98
archaeology, prehistoric, 20, 24, 79, 108–9
amateurs in, 69, 73
methodology for, 7, 14, 123, 128, 131–32, 131
Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin, 17
Ardery, Robert, 109
Ardipithicus ramidus, 168
Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 180
art:
anatomical arrays as, 167–69
hominin depictions in, 10, 12, 31–32, 32, 43, 65–66, 68, 112–13, 167–71
hominin fossils as, 243
reproductions vs. originals, 147, 177
see also paleoart, paleoartists
artifacts, 22, 52, 58, 113, 115, 121, 192
as records of culture, 13, 15, 108, 134, 177–78, 201
religious, 176–77, 182
see also tools
Asfaw, Ato Alemayehu, 156, 217
Asia:
fossil evidence in, 85, 90, 95, 100, 121–25, 196–99, 214
Pleistocene migration from, 189–90, 201
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 237
Australia, 189–90, 201
australopithecines, see Kadanuumuu; Lucy; Sediba; Taung Child
“Australopithicus” (Rose), 104–5
Austropithecus deyiremeda, 234
Bardon, Louis, 13–14, 20, 22, 29–30, 36
Barkham Manor, 51, 52, 56–57, 62
Barlow, F. O., 60, 92
Beatles, 157, 160, 163, 166
Beijing, China, 119, 121, 123–24, 132, 137, 142, 147, 240
Berger, Lee, 116, 213–16, 222–23, 226, 229–31, 234–35, 240
Berger, Matthew, 213, 216, 227, 227
bipedalism, 155, 195, 209, 218, 220
Black, Davidson, 121, 126–28, 130–33, 144–45, 222, 240
Blaschke, Frederick, 42–43
Blinderman, Charles, 70, 80
Boex, Joseph and Séraphin, 33, 34, 46