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| Preface for students: a guide to studying human evolution | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Framework of Human Evolution | |
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| The growth of the evolutionary perspective | |
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| Our place in nature | |
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| Establishing the link between humans and apes: historical views | |
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| Human evolution as narrative and as explanation | |
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| The principles of evolutionary theory | |
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| The fundamentals of evolutionary theory | |
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| Modern evolutionary theory: the development of Neo-Darwinism and the power of natural selection | |
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| Pattern and process in evolution | |
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| From micro- to macroevolution: debates in modern evolutionary theory | |
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| The physical context of evolution | |
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| Extinction and patterns of evolution | |
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| The geological context | |
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| Dating methods | |
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| The science of burial | |
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| The systematic context | |
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| Systematics | |
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| Molecular systematics | |
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| Human evolution in comparative perspective | |
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| Primate heritage | |
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| The comparative perspective | |
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| Bodies, size, and shape | |
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| Bodies, brains, and energy | |
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| Reconstructing behavior | |
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| Bodies, behavior, and social structure | |
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| Non-human models of early hominin behavior | |
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| Jaws and teeth | |
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| Early Hominin Evolution | |
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| Apes, hominins, and humans: morphology, molecules, and fossils | |
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| Morphology and molecules: a history of conflict | |
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| Evolution of the catarrhines: the context of hominin origin | |
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| Searching for the first hominins | |
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| The earliest hominins | |
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| Bipedalism | |
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| The apelike hominins | |
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| The australopithecines | |
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| Origins of Homo | |
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| The genus Homo | |
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| Hominin relationships | |
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| Behavior and evolution of early hominins | |
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| Early tool technologies | |
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| The pattern of early hominin evolution | |
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| Africa and beyond: the evolution of Homo | |
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| Evolutionary patterns | |
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| New technologies | |
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| Hunter or scavenger? | |
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| Later Hominin Evolution | |
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| The origin of modern humans: background and fossil evidence | |
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| Background for the evolution of modern humans | |
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| Competing hypotheses for modern human origins | |
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| Chronological evidence | |
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| The question of regional continuity | |
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| The place of Neanderthals in human evolution | |
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| The origin of modern humans: genetic evidence | |
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| The impact of molecular evolutionary genetics | |
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| Recent developments | |
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| The origin of modern humans: archeology, behavior, and evolutionary process | |
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| Archeological evidence | |
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| Regional patterns in the archeology | |
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| Toward an integrated model of modern human origins | |
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| Evolution of the brain, intelligence, and culture | |
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| Encephalization | |
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| Cultural evolution | |
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| Language and symbolism | |
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| The evolution of language | |
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| Art in prehistory | |
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| New worlds, old worlds | |
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| Completing colonization | |
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| The first villagers | |
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| The human evolutionary heritage | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |