عنوان

Rethinking human evolution /

0262037327

9780262037327

Rethinking human evolution /

[Book]

edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

The MIT Press,

[2018]

xv, 365 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The deceptive search for "missing links" in human evolution, 1860-2010 : do paleoanthropologists always work in the best interests of their discipline?/ Richard G. Delisle -- 2. Biological explanations and their limits : paleoanthropology among the sciences / Siobhan Mc Manus -- 3. Human and mammalian evolution : is there a difference? / John de Vos and Jelle W.F. Reumer -- 4. What's real about human evolution? : received wisdom, assumptions, and scenarios / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- 5. To tree or not to tree Homo sapiens / Rob DeSalle, Apurva Narechania, Martine Zilversmit, Jeff Rosenfeld, and Michael Tessler -- 6. Hypothesis compatibility versus hypothesis testing of models of human evolution / Alan R. Templeton -- 7. Out of Africa : the evolution and history of human populations in the southern dispersal zone / Michael D. Petraglia and Huw S. Groucutt -- 8. The phylogenomic origins and definition of Homo sapiens / Peter J . Waddell -- 9. "Like fixing an airplane in flight" : on paleoanthropology as an evolutionary discipline, or paleoanthropology for what? / Fred L. Bookstein -- 10. Back to basics : morphological analysis in paleoanthropology / Markus Bastir -- 11. Where evolutionary biology meets history : ethno-nationalism and modern human origins in East Asia / Robin Dennell -- 12. Referential models for the study of hominin evolution : how many do we need? / Gabriele A. Macho -- 13. Archeological sites from 2.6-2.0 Ma : toward a deeper understanding of the early Oldowan / Thomas W. Plummer and Emma M. Finestone -- 14. Human brain evolution : history or science? / Dietrich Stout -- 15. Brain size and the emergence of modern human cognition / Ian Tattersall -- 16. Sex, reproduction, and scenarios of human evolution / Claudine Cohen.

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Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.

Human evolution.

Evolution.

Hominisation.

Human evolution.

Paläanthropologie.

Schwartz, Jeffrey H.

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