Pat Shipman

Alan Walker

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Pat Shipman

Detailing the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution, this book is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world.

An Intellectual & Natural History of Proconsul

The Ape in the Tree

This text sets forth in a clearly understandable way methods of analyzing how animal remains are acted upon and altered, both by biological and geological phenomena, in their passage from the biosphere of bones and carcass into the lithosphere of fossils. I

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Pat Shipman

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