Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031141560,3031141563, 9783031141577, 3031141571

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3031141571
• ISBN-13: 9783031141577
• Author: John H. Langdon
  

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. The book has an engaging and lucid style suitable for those entering the field. Students will find ample case studies, illustrations and examples helpful in understanding difficult concepts. Tables, timelines, and maps in every chapter include data summaries and key points. The book highlights peripheral points and background concepts in side boxes for easy reference and lists key ideas at the end of each chapter. This up-to-date and easy to read text is suitable for both classroom study and self-learning.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction

1. The Reflection in the Mirror

2. Background: Evolutionary Classification and Fossil Dating

3. A Primate Heritage

Part II. The First Hominins

4. Miocene Hominoids

5. The Early Hominins: Australopiths

6. The Ecological Context of Early Hominin Evolution

7. Understanding Australopiths

8. The Evolution of Bipedality

Part III. The First Humans

9. The Earliest Humans in Africa

10. The First Technology

11. Diet of Early Homo

12. Evolution of the Brain

13. Leaving Africa

Part IV. The Middle Pleistocene

14. The Erectines of Asia

15. Erectines of the West

16. Behavior in the Middle Pleistocene

Part V. The Emergence of Modern People

17. Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans

18. From the Middle Paleolithic to the Modern Mind

19. Modern Humans Disperse From Africa

20. Distributing Modern Peoples

21. Life History and Reproduction

22. Evolution Today and Tomorrow

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