Robert Foley (ed.)

The Origins of Human Behaviour

Herausgeber: Foley, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780044450153
• ISBN-10: 004445015X
• Artikelnr.: 22580990

Autorenporträt

Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour, R.A. Foley;
Chapter 1 Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?, W.C.
McGrew; Chapter 2 How useful is the culture concept in early hominid
studies?, R.A. Foley; Chapter 3 The significance of modern hunter-gatherers
in the study of early hominid behaviour, Francis B. Musonda; Chapter 4
Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence, Thomas Wynn; Chapter 5 The
invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper
Palaeolithic, Sheldon Klein; Chapter 6 An interactive growth model applied
to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations, Ezra B.W. Zubrow;
Chapter 7 Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations, Phillip J.
Habgood;