{"product_id":"lowly-origin-where-when-and-why-our-ancestors-first-stood-up-9780691120287","title":"Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur 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 \u003ci\u003eDescent of Man\u003c\/i\u003e and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, \u003ci\u003eLowly Origin\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A major new narrative of human evolution, \u003ci\u003eLowly Origin\u003c\/i\u003e is the best available account of what it meant--and what it means--to walk on two feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Kingdon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.34w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691120287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Kingdon\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSelf-Made Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIsland Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). The Millennium issue of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e named Kingdon's \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Evolution in Africa\u003c\/i\u003e one of the 100 books that shaped a century of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40113779441779,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2a2bf465-2cb5-40de-94c7-e519f30dec69.jpg?v=1653488678","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lowly-origin-where-when-and-why-our-ancestors-first-stood-up-9780691120287","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}