Primate and Human Evolution /
Cachel,Susan
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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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.