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| Each chapter includes | |
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| Overview | |
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| Summary | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Suggested Further Reading, and Internet Resources | |
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| Evolution | |
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| The Search for Human Origins | |
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| Mini-Timeline | |
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| Pre-Scientific Theories of Human Origins | |
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| Early Naturalists Begin to Question Human Antiquity | |
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| Geology Comes of Age: The Theory of Deep Time | |
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| The Advent of Evolutionary Theories | |
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| Gregor Mendel and the Problem of Heredity | |
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| Turn of the Century: Mendel Rediscovered, Natural Selection out of Favor. | |
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| Evolutionary Mechanisms | |
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| Levels of Selection and Change | |
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| Genes, DNA, and RNA | |
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| Sources of Genetic and Phenotypic Variation | |
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| Populations and Species | |
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| The Origin of Humankind | |
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| Humans among the Primates | |
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| Names and Classifications | |
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| The Primates | |
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| Human Characteristics | |
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| The Behavior of Living Primates | |
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| Studying Primates | |
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| Basis of Social Organization | |
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| Territory and Ecology | |
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| The Apes | |
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| Apes and Other Ancestors: Prehominid Evolution | |
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| Studying Fossils | |
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| Dating Procedures | |
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| The Earliest Primates | |
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| Undoubted Primate Fossils | |
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| The First Higher Primates | |
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| The Transvaal Hominids | |
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| Mini-Timeline | |
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| The Science of Paleoanthropology | |
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| Dart''s Discovery of the Taung Skull (1924) | |
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| Discoveries of Robert Broom | |
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| Fossils and Artifacts | |
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| Additional Finds at Swartkrans | |
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| Comments on Australopithecine Phylogeny | |
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| East Africa: The Australopithecine Fossils | |
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| Separating Australopithecines and Hominines in East Africa | |
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| Discoveries at Olduvai | |
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| The Search Moves North into Kenya and Ethiopia | |
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| The Pace of Discovery Quickens at Century''s End | |
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| Lifestyles of the Australopithecines | |
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| Evolutionary Models of the Subfamily Australopithecinae | |
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| East Africa: The Advent of Homo | |
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| First Evidence of the Hominines | |
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| Early Hominine Lifestyles | |
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| Early Hominine Phylogenies | |
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| The Evolution of Hominid behavior | |
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| Hominid Characteristics | |
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| Bipedal Locomotion | |
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| Early Technology | |
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| What Triggered Brain Expansion in Early Homo? | |
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| The Evolution of Humankind | |
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| Discovering Homo erectus | |
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| Eugene Dubois and the Quest for the Missing Link | |
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| Twentieth-Century Discoveries | |
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| Homo erectus Fossils from Africa | |
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| Evidence of Homo erectus in Europe: Many Artifacts, Few Fossils | |
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| More Fossils and Some Surprising Dates from Asia | |
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| The Anatomy of Homo erectus | |
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| Evolutionary Relationships of Homo erectus | |
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| Environment and Technology of Homo erectus | |
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| Homo erectus: New Questions about an Old Species | |
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| The World of Homo erectus | |
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| Stone Tools | |
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| Shelter and Fire | |
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| Subsistence Patterns and Diet | |
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| Hunting, Gathering, and the Evolution of Society | |
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| Behavioral Speculations | |
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| The Archaeology of the Hunters | |
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| Beginnings of Hunting | |
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| New Social Developments | |
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| Intraspecies Aggression | |
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| The Evolution of Language and the Brain | |
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| Ways of Communicating | |
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| Ability to Speak | |
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| Evolution of Speech | |
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| The Brain | |
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| Modern Humanity | |
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| Homo heidelbergensis and the Neandertals: Successors to Homo erectus | |
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| The Descendants of Homo erectus | |
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| First View of Neandertals | |
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| Neandertals in Europe and Beyond | |
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| Neandertal Anatomy | |
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| Speciation in the Middle Pleistocene: Homo heidelbergensis | |
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| The Anatomy of Homo Heidelbergensis | |
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| Evolutionary Relationships in the Mid-to-Late Pleistocene | |
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| Homo heidelbergensis and the Neandertals: Culture and Environments | |
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| Mini-Timeline | |
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| Range and Adaptations of Mid-to-Late Pleistocene Humans | |
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| Cultural Developments among Homo heidelbergensis | |
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| The Penultimate Pleistocene Glacial Cycle | |
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| The Ice Sheets return | |
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| Cultural Developments among the Neandertals | |
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| The Final Transformation: The Evolution of Modern Humans | |
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| Early Discoveries of Anatomically Modern People | |
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| Fate of the Archaic Humans | |
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| The Biological and Cultural Transition | |
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| A New Breed | |
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| New Lands | |
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| Technology, Magic, and Art | |
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| Mini-Timeline | |
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| An End to Wandering | |
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| Art and Ritual | |
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| The Human Condition | |
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| The Story of Humankind | |
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| Human Variability | |
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| The Question of Race | |
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| Challenges for the Future | |
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| The Genetic Code | |
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| Dating Procedures for Fossil Remains | |
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| Diagnostic Traits of the Hominids | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |