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Revised, updated, and expanded. |
| Description |
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 31 cm |
| Note |
"A Peter N. Nèvraumont book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Central issues of paleoanthropology -- What is a human? -- 1. The human creature -- 2. The quest for origins -- 3. Is human evolution different? -- Evidence -- 4. The science of paleoanthropology -- 5. The early human fossil record -- 6. Discovering early human fossil sites -- 7. Recovering the remains of early humans -- 8. Dating fossils and artifacts -- 9. Climate and human evolution -- 10. Teeth -- 11. Proteins, DNA, and human evolution -- 12. Why is paleoanthropology so contentious? -- Ancestors -- 13. Our closest living relatives -- 14. The last common ancestor of apes and humans -- 15. Drawing the human family tree -- Lineages -- 16. African genesis -- 17. Early vs. modern humans -- 18. Eve and Adam -- 19. The earliest fossil evidence of anatomically modern humans -- Migration -- 20. Out of Africa -- 21. The first Americans -- 22. Peopling the globe -- Diversity -- 23. Defining human species -- 24. Co-existing human species -- 25. Human diversity today -- 26. What is race? -- Anatomy -- 27. The size of early humans -- 28. Sexual dimorphism -- 29. Gestation -- 30. Maturation -- 31. Evolution of the human brain -- 32. Reconstructing the appearance of early humans -- Society -- 33. Primate societies and early human social behavior -- Bipedalism -- 34. Evidence for bipedalism -- 35. The origins of bipedalism -- Tools -- 36. The oldest stone tools -- Customs -- 37. Hunters, gatherers, or scavengers? -- 38. Diet -- 39. Cannibalism -- 40. Fire -- 41. Shelter -- 42. Clothing -- Culture -- 43. Burial -- 44. Art -- 45. The origins of language -- Imponderables -- 46. The problem of consciousness -- 47. Will humans become extinct? -- 48. Place of humans in nature -- |
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pt. 2. Encountering the evidence -- Pre-Australopithecines -- Sabelanthropus tchadensis, TM 266-01-060-01, cranium -- Orrorin tugenensis, BAR 1000'00, mandible -- Ardipithecus ramidus, ARA-VP-6/129, partial juvenile mandible -- Kenyanthropus platyops, KNM-WT 40000, cranium -- Australopithecines -- Australopithecines anamensis, KNM-KP 29281, adult mandible -- Australopithecines garhi, BOU-VP-12/130, cranium -- Australopithecines afarensis, A.L. 288-1, Lucy, partial adult skeleton -- Australopithecines afarensis, A.L. 333, the first family, fragments of seventeen individuals -- Australopithecines afarensis, A.L. 444-2, adult cranium -- Australopithecines afarensis, A.L. 129-1a+1b, adult female knee joint -- Australopithecines afarensis, L.H. 4, adult mandible/fossil hominid footprints -- Australopithecines cf. africanus, StW 573, skeleton -- Australopithecines africanus, Sts 5, Mrs. Ples, adult cranium -- Australopithecines africanus, Sts 14, partial adult skeleton -- Australopithecines africanus, Sts 71 and Sts 36, adult cranium with mandible -- Australopithecines africanus, Taung child, immature skill -- Australopithecines robustus, TM 1517, mandible -- Australopithecines sp., Stw 252, adult cranium -- Australopithecines crassidens, SK 6, adolescent mandible/SK 48, adult cranium/SK 79, adult cranium -- Australopithecines aethiopicus, KNM-WT 17000, black skull, adult cranium -- Australopithecines boisei, OH 5, Nutcracker man, Zinj, adult cranium -- Australopithecines boisei, KNM-ER 406, adult male cranium/KNM-ER 732, adult female cranium -- |
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Homo -- Homo sp., A.L. 666-1, adult maxilla -- Homo habilis, OH 7, juvenile male mandible -- Homo habilis, OH 24, adult female cranium -- Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, adult cranium -- Homo habilis, OH 62, Lucy's child, partial adult skeleton -- Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, adult cranium -- Homo georgicus, D 2600, adult mandible -- Homo ergaster, KNM-ER 3733, adult cranium -- Homo ergaster, KNM-WT 15000, juvenile male skeleton -- Homo ergaster, SK 847, partial adult cranium -- Homo erectus, Trinil 2, Java man, partial adult cranium -- Homo erectus, Peking man, adult skull reconstruction -- Homo erectus, Sangiran 17, adult male cranium -- Homo heidelbergensis, Bodo cranium, adult cranium -- Homo heidelbergensis, Mauer 1, adult mandible -- Homo heidelbergensis, Arago XXI, adult cranium -- Homo heidelbergensis, Petralona 1, adult cranium -- Homo heidelbergensis, Steinheim, adult female cranium -- Homo heidelbergensis, Atapuerca 5, adult skull -- Homo heidelbergensis, Broken Hill 1, adult cranium -- Homo neanderthalensis, Krapina C, adult female cranium -- Homo neanderthalensis, Saccopastore I, adult female cranium -- Homo neanderthalensis, Teshik-Tash, juvenile skull -- Homo neanderthalensis, Kebara 2, adult male skeleton -- Homo neanderthalensis, Amud 1, adult male skull -- Homo neanderthalensis, Amud 7, partial infant skeleton -- Homo neanderthalensis, La Chapelle-aux-Saints, adult male skull -- Homo neanderthalensis, Ferrassie 1, adult male cranium -- Homo neanderthalensis, Neandertal 1, adult calotte -- Homo neanderthalensis, Gibraltar 1, adult female cranium -- Homo neanderthalensis, Saint-Césaire, partial adult cranium -- |
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Homo floresiensis, LB 1, partial skeleton -- Homo sapiens, Dali, adult male cranium -- Homo sapiens, Omo I and Omo II, partial adult skeleton and cranium -- Homo sapiens, Qafzeh IX, adult female skeleton -- Homo sapiens, Skhul V, adult male skeleton -- Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, adult male skeleton -- Homo sapiens, Kow Swamp 1, adult male skeleton -- Paleolithic technology -- Oldowan tools -- Acheulean tools -- Mousterian tools -- Upper paleolithic tools -- Appendix 1 : Type specimens for hominid species -- Appendix 2 : Hominid fossil and archeological sites -- Acknowledgments -- Selected references -- Index. |
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Human evolution.
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Fossil hominids.
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Australopithecines.
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Lucy (Prehistoric hominid)
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Evolution.
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Anthropology, Physical.
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Fossils.
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Hominidae.
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Paleontology.
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| Added Author |
Edgar, Blake.
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| ISBN |
0743280644 |
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9780743280648 |
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