Human evolution : trails from the past /
This book is intended as a comprehensive overview of hominid evolution, synthesising data and approaches from physical anthropology, genetics, archaeology, psychology and philosophy. Human evolution courses are now widespread and this book has the potential to satisfy the requirements of most, parti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Oxford biology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal
- Evolution, genetics, and systematics
- The evolution of hominoids
- The hominin lineage
- Miocene and Pliocene genera and species
- Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley
- The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo
- The radiation of homo
- Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade
- The late-Pleistocene transition
- The uniqueness of being human.