Reconstructing human origins : a modern synthesis
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Reconstructing human origins : a modern synthesis
W.W. Norton, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The field of paleoanthropology has undergone tremendous change and growth in the last twenty years. Recent fossil finds at early hominid sites in Africa, Asia, and Europe have ignited debate as well as controversy among the major figures who have shaped the discipline. In Reconstructing Human Origins, Glenn Conroy examines all aspects of the fossil record--paleoecological, morphological, and archeological--in an effort to better understand the progression of human evolution from our primate ancestors to anatomically modern peoples.
Table of Contents
- Time, climate and human evolution
- finding, dating and naming fossil hominids
- before the bipeds - human antecedents among the Miocene hominoids
- the earliest hominids - the Australopithecines
- Australopithicine palaeobiology and phyogeny
- the origin of the genus homo
- quo vadis homo erectus?
- almost but not quite - archaic homo sapiens
- between apes and humanity - what the molecules say about "modern" human origins
- between apes and humanity - what the fossils say about "modern" human origins
- epilogue. (Part contents)
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