Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Name: Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology
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ISBN: 9780226608990

ISBN-10: 0226608999

ISBN-13: 9780226608990

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles L. Nunn

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Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found, such as those of the tiny humans of Flores, scientists compare these remains to other fossils and contemporary humans. Comparison provides a way to draw general inferences about the evolution of traits and therefore has long been the cornerstone of efforts to understand biological and cultural diversity. Individual studies of fossilized remains, living species, or human populations are the essential units of analysis in a comparative study;…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

ï¿½ Charles L. Nunn is associate professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is coeditor of Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives and coauthor of Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution. ï¿½ï¿½



Preface



The Importance of Comparison



Basic Phylogenetic Concepts and "Tree Thinking"



Reconstructing Ancestral States for Discrete Traits



Reconstructing Ancestral States for Quantitative Traits



Modeling Evolutionary Change



Correlated Evolution and Testing Adaptive Hypotheses



Comparative Methods to Detect Correlated Evolutionary Change



Using Trees to Study Biological and Cultural Diversification



Size, Allometry, and Phylogeny



Human Cultural Traits and Linguistic Evolution



Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of Biological and Cultural Diversity



Investigating Evolutionary Singularities



Developing a Comparative Database and Targeting Future Data Collection



Conclusions and Future Directions


References


Index