Understanding Human Evolution / Jeffrey K. McKee, Frank E. Poirier, W Scott Mcgraw.
For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology.This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology-the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains....
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter One Trends in Human Evolution""; ""Overview""; ""Trend 1: The Evolution of Bipedalism""; ""Origins of Bipedalism""; ""Trend 2: Effective Exploitation of the Terrestrial Habitat""; ""Language""; ""Trend 3: Increasing Brain Size and Complexity""; ""Trend 4: Extensive Manipulation of Natural Objects and the Development of Motor Skills to Facilitate Toolmaking""; ""Trend 5: The Increased Acquisition of Meat Protein""; ""Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""
- ""Chapter Two Fossils, Fossilization, and Dating Methods""""The Fossilization Process""; ""Dating Fossil Materials""; ""Relative Dating""; ""Chronometric Dating""; ""Determining Past Environments""; ""Climate and Geology""; ""Plant Communities""; ""Mammal Communities""; ""Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter Three Determining Evolutionary Relationships""; ""Linnaean Classification Scheme""; ""Rules of Nomenclature""; ""The Evolutionary Process""; ""Speciation""; ""Parallel and Convergent Evolution""; ""Establishing Evolutionary Relationships""
- ""Guidelines for Evaluating Fossil Materials""""Assessing the Pace of Evolution and Mode of Speciation""; ""Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter Four Our Place in the Animal Kingdom""; ""Geologic Time Scale""; ""Vertebrate Evolution""; ""Mammal-Like Reptiles and Mammalian Evolution""; ""Mammalian Traits""; ""Mammalian Subclasses""; ""The Insectivora""; ""The Primates""; ""Primate Traits""; ""The Human-Ape Relationship""; ""The Human Primate""; ""Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter Five Reconstructing Ancient Human Behavior and Social Organizations""; ""Overview""
- ""The Nature of Explanatory Models""""Foraging Societies""; ""Rethinking Gender Roles in Early Hominins""; ""Nonhuman Primates""; ""A Note of Caution""; ""Savanna-Dwelling Baboons as Models of Early Hominin Behavior""; ""Chimpanzees as Models of Early Hominin Behavior""; ""Chimpanzee Tool Use""; ""Another Great Ape in the Cultural Arena: The Orangutan""; ""Hunting by Chimpanzees""; ""Chimpanzee Social Organization and Feeding Ecology""; ""The Peaceful Bonobo""; ""A Composite Model""; ""Social Carnivores""; ""Summary""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""Chapter Six Early Primate Evolution""