Humankind Emerging

Name: Humankind Emerging
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ISBN: 9780205423804

ISBN-10: 0205423809

ISBN-13: 9780205423804

Edition: 9th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Bernard G. Campbell, James D. Loy, Kathryn Cruz-Uribe

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Book details

List price: $206.65
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.102
Language: English




Evolution



The Search for Human Origins


Mini-Timeline


Pre-Scientific Theories of Human Origins


Early Naturalists Begin to Question Human Antiquity


Geology Comes of Age: The Theory of Deep Time


The Advent of Evolutionary Theories


Gregor Mendel and the Problem of Heredity


Turn of the Century: Mendel Rediscovered, Natural Selection Out of Favor



Evolutionary Mechanisms


Levels of Selection and Change


Genes, DNA, and RNA


Sources of Genetic and Phenotypic Variation


Populations and Species



The Origin Of Humankind



Humans among the Primates


Names and Classifications


The Primates


Human Characteristics



The Behavior of Living Primates


Studying Primates


Basis of Social Organization


Territory and Ecology


The Apes



Apes and Other Ancestors: Prehominin Evolution


Mini-Timeline


Studying Fossils


Dating Procedures


The Earliest Primates


Undoubted Primate Fossils


Tarsiiformes and Anthropoids Evolve



South African Hominins


Mini-Timeline


The Science of Paleoanthropology


Dart's Discovery of the Taung Skull (1924)


Discoveries of Robert Broom


Fossils and Artifacts


Comments on Australopith Phylogeny



East Africa and the Sahel: A Multitude of Australopiths


Mini-Timeline


A Half-Century of Australopiths from East Africa and the Sahel


Discoveries at Olduvai


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