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