"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena.

Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T.

Boaz and Russell L.

Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus.

Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey.

New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next.

Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth.

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Authors: Noel Thomas Boaz, Russell L. Ciochon

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Date: Jan. 16, 2004

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