Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

by John Gurche

Book Overview

How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030021684X
• ISBN13: 9780300216844
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 9.7"