Susan Cachel

Primate and Human Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for students and researchers interested in how primates, including ourselves, evolved, Primate and Human Evolution explores evolutionary anthropology from a broad comparative perspective, and presents a new model of human origins that does not depend solely on global climatic change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781108949439
• ISBN-10: 1108949436
• Artikelnr.: 61269823

Autorenporträt

Susan Cachel is Associate Professor of Physical Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is a member of the Rutgers Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, and is an instructor and researcher at the Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. A brief history of primatology and human evolution
3. The catarrhine fossil record
4. Primate speciation and exstinction
5. Anatomical primatology
6. Captive studies of non-human primates
7. What can non-human primate anatomy, physiology, and development reveal about human evolution?
8. Natural history intelligence and human evolution
9. Why be social? - the advantages and disadvantages of social life
10. Evolution and behaviour
11. The implications of body size for evolutionary ecology
12. The nature of the fossil record
13. The bipedal breakthrough
14. The hominid radiation
15. Modelling human evolution
16. Archaeological evidence and models of human evolution
17. What does evolutionary anthropology reveal about human evolution?
18. Final thoughts on primate and human evolution.