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Human Paleobiology /
Human Paleobiology explores the adaptability and variation in past and present human populations under a range of changing environmental conditions. Using a historical approach emphasizing phenotypic features instead of complex taxonomy, it will be a stimulating and challenging read for all those in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Paleobiology: present perspectives on the past; 2 Constancy and change: taxonomic uncertainty in a probabilistic world; 3 A century of fossils; 4 About a century of theory; 5 Human adaptability present and past; 6 Primate pattern of diversity and adaptation; 7 Hominid phylogeny: morphological and molecular measures of diversity; 8 Plio-Pleistocene hominids: the paleobiology of fragmented populations; 9 Character state velocity in the emergence of more advanced hominids.