@book {1666,
	title = {The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {306},
	publisher = {Anchor Books},
	organization = {Anchor Books},
	edition = {1st Ed.},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {<p>In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the {\textquotedblleft}missing link{\textquotedblright}{\textendash}the fossil of the earliest human ancestor{\textendash}Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups{\textendash}one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut{\textendash}who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.</p>
},
	keywords = {Fossil hominids, Human evolution},
	isbn = {0385512260},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/2005053780},
	author = {Gibbons, Ann}
}
