| Description |
ix, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
This book is about the immense forces of nature that formed and shaped the human species over millions of years. It is also about the new high-tech science that has allowed us to peer into the dark recesses of the past as never before and to reconstruct the trials, adaptive successes, and evolution of our ancestors. In Eco Homo, paleoanthropologist Noel T. Boaz presents a narrative of human evolution, a natural history of our origins, in the contexts of ecology and environmental change. |
| Contents |
1. Ecological Changes and Primate Evolution: The Prime Movers of Change -- 2. Hypothesis 1: The Earth Cools and the Gorilla Evolves in Montane Isolation -- 3. Hypothesis 2: The African Western Rift Valley Split Human Ancestors Off from Chimps -- 4. Hypothesis 3: The Developing Sahara Split Hominids Off from Chimps -- 5. Hypothesis 4: Australopithecines Adapt to an Expanding Savanna-Grassland Environment -- 6. Hypothesis 5: The 2.8-Million-Year-Old Paleoclimatic Event Effects the Evolutionary Origin of the Genus Homo -- 7. Hypothesis 6: A "Paleoclimatic Pump" Expels Homo erectus out of Africa -- 8. Hypothesis 7: Neandertals and Mitochondrial Eve Dance a Pas de Deux to the Rhythm of Climate Change -- 9. Hypothesis 8: Superorganic Culture Allows Modern Humans to Conquer the Ice Age and the New World -- 10. Implications: Future Human Evolution, Overpopulation, Global Warming, Pollution, and Our Ecological Survival. |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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| ISBN |
0465018033 |
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9780465018031 |
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0465018041 |
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9780465018048 |
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