Masters of the Planet (49 page)

teenagers, and risk,
100

teeth,
2–10,
21–22,
31–3,
35,
39–40,
46–7,
49,
51,
57–8,
70–2,
74–6,
78,
82,
89,
91,
93,
98,
106,
120,
122–123,
152,
155–6,
163–4,
166,
169–70,
173,
203,
212,
238,
248–9

canine,
5–10,
31,
49,
58,
106

enamel,
2–4,
7–9,
22,
155,
173

and Lucy,
31–3,
35

molars,
2–5,
7–11,
23,
31–2,
71,
75–6,
164,
166

premolars,
10–11,
22,
31,
71

temporal lobe,
223

Terra Amata hut, France,
138–9,
158,
246

depiction of,
139

“theory of mind,”
213–4

thorax,
103

throwing,
43,
53–4,
94,
113,
140,
240

thumbs,
36–7,
43

tibia,
21,
26,
36

Toba supereruption (Indonesia),
195

Tobias, P. V.,
241

tool-making,
xxi-xxii,
4–5,
15,
38–9,
41–4,
49–56,
62,
67–8,
73–5,
77,
83–4,
90,
103–4,
105–6,
111,
116–7,
120,
122,
124–9,
137–42,
152,
157,
160,
169,
172,
174–7,
179,
182–4,
186–90,
192,
201–5,
215,
224,
238–9,
245

advances in,
124–9

See
“handaxes”; “Man the Toolmaker”; Mousterian tools; “Oldowan” tools; spears

topography,
1–3,
147,
161,
205

torsional fractures,
42

“Toumaï,”
6–8,
21

“trampling marks,”
38

Tree of Life,
xv-xx

Trinil site (Java),
89–91

tubers,
50,
54,
72–3,
108

Turkana Basin,
20,
76–8,
91–4,
131

See
“Turkana Boy”

Turkana Boy,
91–107,
110–1,
114,
116,
121,
129–30,
163,
242

discovery of,
91–4

and radical change,
94–104

skeleton of,
92

Uganda,
48,
52

Upper Paleolithic cultures,
180–2,
203,
205

Uzbekistan,
160

vegetarianism,
45–6,
171

“Venus” (Berekhat Ram),
142,
246

versatility,
59–61

Vindija cave (Croatia),
166

violence,
230,
255

vitamin A,
46

“volcanic winter,”
195

volcanism,
20,
195

Wales,
160

Wallace, Alfred Russel,
xvii

West Africa,
20,
53,
194

wheelchairs,
36

Whitson, Willard,
42,
125

Wood, Bernard,
88–9

woodlands,
xx,
3,
22,
26,
32,
45,
49,
122

Woranso-Mille,
39–40,
238

working memory,
224,
254

World War II,
86,
190

Wynne, Patricia,
201

Zambia,
135

Zhirendong (China),
196

Zinjanthropus
(“Nutcracker Man”),
74,
241

See Paranthropus boisei

zoological names,
88