Humans Before Humanity

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-631-20528-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

This book recreates the lost world of the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before, and in some cases after, the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foley, Robert Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

1. A Question of Evolution.

2. Why Darwinism?.

3. What are Human Beings?.

4. When did we become Human?.

5. Was Human Evolution Progressive?.

6. Why Africa?.

7. Is Human Evolution Adaptive?.

8. Why are Humans such an Evolutionary Rarity?.

9. How do we Explain the Evolution of Humans?.

10. Does Human Evolution Matter? A Tabular Guide to the Naming and Discovery of Hominid Species and Subspecies.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Foley is Director of the Duckworth Laboratory and a lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College. His other books include Another Unique Species, Hominid Evolution and Community Ecology, and Comparative Socioecology (co-editor with V. Standen). In addition he has published numerous papers in scientific journals on human evolution and palaeoecology, and contributed to radio and television programmes on evolution.