Lowly Origin : Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up /

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Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many of the things that apes cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools, communicate with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kingdon, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Bipedalism > Origin.
Fossil hominids.
Human beings > Origin.
Human evolution.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Achulean culture.
Adapids.
African Heidelbergs.
Banda Strandlopers.
Biblical symbolism.
Broken Hill fossil.
Catopithecus browni.
Eastern Rift.
Ethiopian Dome.
Flores Landing.
Gondwana.
Hadrocodium.
Hammer, Michael.
Haplorhini.
Highvelt.
Hofmeyr skull.
Homo antecessor.
Indian Heidelberg.
Java man.
Juba River.
Khoisan.
Kiwengoma forest.
Leakey, Meave.
Linnaeus.
Mammaliform.
agriculture.
angiosperm.
antelopes.
arboreal mammals.
autorewarding skills.
brain-language interaction.
cervical nerves.
community of descent.
containers.
dambos.
depigmentation.
dermicidin.
distant ambit.
ecological islands.
edaphic grasslands.
enhanced adaptation.
evolution, mammal.
fovea.
future-eaters.
genocide.
gestures.
grasslands.
ground ape.
hand-eye coordination.
horticulture.
humid foci.
keystone species.
marine culture.
metacarpals.
middlebrows.
mobbing behavior.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Preface to a Self-portrait from the Center of the World
  • Chapter 2. On Being a Primate. From Gondwana to the Forests of Egypt
  • Chapter 3. On Being an Ape. Excursions to Asia and Back
  • Chapter 4. On Being a Ground Ape. Zanj
  • Chapter 5. On Becoming a Biped. "Evolution By Basin": Domes, Rifts, and Floodplains
  • Chapter 6. On Being a Manipulative Man-ape. Isolation in the South
  • CHAPTER 7 On the Uncertainties of Becoming Human. Main-line, Side-line, or Parallel Humans?
  • Chapter 8. On Going Far with Fire. Africans Go Abroad
  • Chapter 9. On Being a Self-made Human. The Modern Diaspora
  • Chapter 10. In Conclusion Confessions of a Repentant Vandal
  • Appendix. Plants Known to Be Especially Favored by Humans and Other Primates
  • Index

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