Human Paleobiology

Autor*innen

• Robert B. Eckhardt

Reihen

• Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

Parameter

• 368 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Wissenschaft

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Explores adaptability and variation in past and present human populations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Palaeobiology: 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 patterns 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; 11. Paleobiological perspectives on modern human origins; 12. The future of the past; References.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Einband: Paperback