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Primate and Human Evolution / Cachel,Susan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: 488ISBN: 0521829429DDC classification: 599.938

Contents:

Introduction -- A brief history of primatology and human evolution -- The catarrhine fossil record -- Primate speciation and extinction -- Anatomical primatology -- Captive studies of non-human primates -- What can non-human primate anatomy, physiology, and development reveal about human evolution? -- Natural history intelligence and human evolution -- Why be social? : the advantages and disadvantages of social life -- Evolution and behavior -- The implications of body size for evolutionary ecology -- The nature of the fossil record -- The bipedal breakthrough -- The hominid radiation -- Modeling human evolution -- Archeological evidence and models of human evolution -- What does evolutionary anthropology reveal about human evolution? -- Final thoughts on primate and human evolution.

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Introduction --
A brief history of primatology and human evolution --
The catarrhine fossil record --
Primate speciation and extinction --
Anatomical primatology --
Captive studies of non-human primates --
What can non-human primate anatomy, physiology, and development reveal about human evolution? --
Natural history intelligence and human evolution --
Why be social? : the advantages and disadvantages of social life --
Evolution and behavior --
The implications of body size for evolutionary ecology --
The nature of the fossil record --
The bipedal breakthrough --
The hominid radiation --
Modeling human evolution --
Archeological evidence and models of human evolution --
What does evolutionary anthropology reveal about human evolution? --
Final thoughts on primate and human evolution.

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