title: The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
author: G. J. Sawyer
description: Remarkable in scope and clarity, this stunning collaboration among scientists, scholars and artists reveals the vast panorama of hominid evolution. The project began when the Fossil Hominid Reconstruction and Research Team, led by anthropologist Sawyer and paleoartist Deak, began reconstructing fossilized skulls and skeletons, using meticulous procedures of forensic anatomical reconstruction to build three-dimensional models of contemporary humankind's known predecessors. Paleontological and anatomical data for each species were combined with anthropological and climatological research to produce this volume, covering 22 species and 7 million years. As chapters move chronologically from our most primitive antecedents, the poorly known "ape-men" of the African Sahel, through more well-known ancestors, such as the Australopithicines, Homo habilis and Neanderthals, the data grows in complexity and quantity; happily, fictional accounts of individual hominids draw readers into each new chapter. Illustrated with astonishingly life-like portraits of long-gone species, this volume also includes appendices that describe in detail how those portraits were achieved. Both inspiring and humbling, this look at humanity's ancestors-the worlds they inhabited, the challenges they faced and the legacies they left behind-is fascinating, informative, and deeply provocative.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  _The Last Human_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Zack Jordan
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
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  House LLC.
  
  
  Hardback ISBN 9780451499813
  
  
  International edition ISBN 9781984818621
  
  
  Ebook ISBN 9780451499837
  
  
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  _Book design by Edwin Vazquez, adapted for ebook_
  
  
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