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The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing the physical context of human evolution, including climate change and the impact of extinctions. Chapter introductions, numerous drawings and photographs, and an essential glossary all add to the accessibility of this text.The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to include coverage of the latest discoveries and perspectives, including:
· New early hominid fossils from Africa and Georgia, and their implications
· New archaeological evidence from Africa on the origin of modern humans
· Updated coverage of prehistoric art, including new sites
· New perspectives on molecular evidence and their implications for human population history.
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- PART 1 HUMAN EVOLUTION IN PERSPECTIVE
- 1 OUR PLACE IN NATURE
- 2 HUMAN EVOLUTION AS NARRATIVE
- 3 HISTORICAL VIEWS
- 4 MODERN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
- 5 THE PHYSICAL CONTEXT OF EVOLUTION
- 6 EXTINCTION AND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTIN
- PART 2 BACKGROUND TO HUMAN EVOLUTION
- 7 DATING METHODS
- 8 SYSTEMATICS: MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR
- 9 SCIENCE OF BURIAL
- 10 PRIMATE HERITAGE
- PART 3 HUMANS AS ANIMALS
- 11 BODIES, SIZE, AND SHAPE
- 12 BODIES, BRAINS, AND ENERGY
- 13 BODIES, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- 14 NONHUMAN MODELS OF EARLY HOMININS
- PART 4 HOMININ BEGINNINGS
- 15 APE AND HUMAN RELATIONS: MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR VIEWS 15
- 16 ORIGIN OF THE HOMINOIDEA
- 17 ORIGIN OF BIPEDALISM
- 18 JAWS AND TEETH
- 19 THE EARLIEST HOMININS: A HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES 19
- PART 5 THE HOMININ ADAPTATION
- 20 THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES
- 21 EARLY HOMO
- 22 HOMININ RELATIONS
- 23 EARLY TOOL TECHNOLOGIES
- PART 6 HOMO ERECTUS: BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
- 24 THE CHANGING POSITION OF HOMO ERECTUS
- 25 NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- 26 HUNTER OR SCAVENGER?
- PART 7 THE ORIGIN OF MODERN HUMANS
- 27 THE NEANDERTHAL ENIGMA
- 28 ANATOMICAL EVIDENCE
- 29 GENETIC EVIDENCE
- 30 ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
- PART 8 THE HUMAN MILIEU
- 31 EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN, INTELLIGENCE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- 32 THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
- 33 ART IN PREHISTORY
- PART 9 NEW WORLDS
- 34 THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALIA
- 35 THE ORIGIN OF AGRICULTURE AND THE FIRST VILLAGERS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX