عنوان

Rethinking human evolution /

(Number (ISBN

0262037327

(Number (ISBN

9780262037327

Title Proper

Rethinking human evolution /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The MIT Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 365 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Edition

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Book number

Schwartz, Jeffrey H.

Date of Transaction

20200822104650.0

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