Human Evolution Series – serie
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10 produkter
African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution
Av Timothy G. Bromage, Friedemann Schrenk
Inbunden, 2000
2948 kr
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This interdisciplinary book interprets early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and specific habitats. It assesses carefully the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution. Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, the book …
Meat-Eating and Human Evolution
Av Craig B. Stanford, Henry T. Bunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2257 kr
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When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unkown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that …
The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis
Av William H. Kimbel, Yoel Rak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2645 kr
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The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.6-3.0 million year old early human species Australopithecus afarensis. Knowledge of this species is pivotal to understanding early human evolution, because 1) the sample of fossil remains of A. …
The Paleobiology of the Pavlovian People
Av Erik Trinkaus, Jiri Svoboda
Inbunden, 2005
3495 kr
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This is primary descriptive volume on the most important paleontological site for research into the emergence of humans, the development of a modern pattern of hunting and gathering societies in the Middle Upper Paleolithic Era. Erik Trinkhaus is among the most distinguished paleoanthropologists …
Evolution of the Human Diet
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
Häftad, 2006
1066 kr
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We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons. One is the fundamental concern over our present-day eating habits and the consequences of our societal choices, such as obesity prevalent in some cultures and starvation in others. Another is that humans have learned to feed …
Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific
Inbunden, 2007
1304 kr
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The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere. Approximately 20% of the worlds languages are spoken here, and the biological and genetic …
The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave
Inbunden, 2010
1105 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHs). The record from this region raises the question of possible …
Life and Death at the Pestera cu Oase
A Setting for Modern Human Emergence in Europe
Av Erik Trinkaus, Silviu Constantin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2306 kr
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The Pestera cu Oase is a sealed limestone cavern in southwestern Romania which served principally as a hibernation den for Pleistocene cave bears and wolves, but also contained the fossil remains of the earliest modern humans in Europe. Currently inaccessible except through cave diving and rock …
Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995
Av Bernhard Zipfel, Brian G. Richmond m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1376 kr
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The 1924 African discovery of an early hominin child's skull, referred to as Australopithecus africanus by Raymond Dart, was a major event in the history of paleoanthropology. This provided the first evidence of early hominins in Africa and overturned conventional ideas about human evolution. …
The People of Sunghir
Burials, Bodies, and Behavior in the Earlier Upper Paleolithic
Av Erik Trinkaus, Alexandra P. Buzhilova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3238 kr
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In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authors synthesize the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghir archaeological site. It has long been apparent to those in the field of paleoanthropology that the human fossil remains from …
