Robert B. Eckhardt

Human Paleobiology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores adaptability and variation in past and present human populations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123853
• ISBN-10: 0521123852
• Artikelnr.: 27271750

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Palaeobiology: present perspectives on the past
2. Constancy and change: taxonomic uncertainty in a probabilistic world
3. A century of fossils
4. About a century of theory
5. Human adaptability present and past
6. Primate patterns of diversity and adaptation
7. Hominid phylogeny: morphological and molecular measures of diversity
8. Plio-Pleistocene hominids: the paleobiology of fragmented populations
9. Character state velocity in the emergence of more advanced hominids
11. Paleobiological perspectives on modern human origins
12. The future of the past
References.