The complete world of human evolution / Chris Stringer, Peter Andrews
- Author
- Stringer, Chris, 1947-
- Published
- London : Thames & Hudson, 2012.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Physical Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Additional Creators
- Andrews, Peter, 1940-
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I.In Search of Our Ancestors -- Living Apes and Their Environment -- Human Variations -- Palaeoanthropology -- The Geological Timescale -- Dating the Past -- Studying Animal Function -- Excavation and Analytical Techniques -- New Techniques for Studying Fossils -- Taphonomy: How Fossils are Preserved -- What Fossils Tell Us About Ancient Environments -- Changing Climates -- Site I Rusinga Island -- Site II Pasalar -- Site III Rudabanya -- Site IV Olduvai Gorge -- Site V Boxgrove -- Site VI Gibraltar -- II.The Fossil Evidence -- Origin of the Primates -- Early Anthropoids -- What Makes an Ape? -- Ancestral Apes -- Proconsul and its Contemporaries -- Middle Miocene African Apes -- The Exit from Africa -- Ankarapithecus - a Fossil Enigma -- Orang utan Ancestors -- The Ancestry of the Living Apes -- Late Miocene Apes and Early Human Ancestors -- Australopithecus africanus -- Robust Australopithecines -- The Origins of Humans -- Early Homo -- Homo erectus -- Models of Recent Human Evolution -- The Early Occupation of Europe: Gran Dolina -- Homo heidelbergensis -- Atapuerca and the Origin of Neanderthals -- The Neanderthals -- Africa-Homeland of Homo sapiens? -- Asia-Corridor or Cul-de-sac? -- What Happened to the Neanderthals? -- The Cro-Magnons -- The First Australians -- Homo floresiensis -- Genetic Data on Human Evolution -- Mitochondrial DNA.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780500288986 (pbk.)
0500288984 (pbk.) - Note
- Previous ed.: 2005.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
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