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  title info:
    title: Human Evolution
    sub title: Bones, Cultures, and Genes
  name:
    name part: Langdon, John H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2022
    edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XXXVII, 722 pages 1 illustrations)
  abstract: This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection of textbooks in the following ways: • It incorporates the most recent fossil discoveries and interpretations. • It balances the discussion between descriptions of fossils and interpretations of behavior of hominins in different time periods. • It includes current findings of genomics into understanding the more recent stages of human evolution. This important subdiscipline is badly underserved by current texts. • It consistently addresses the relationship of evidence to our current hypotheses and interpretations. The book has an engaging and lucid style suitable for those entering the field. Students will find ample case studies, illustrations and examples helpful in understanding difficult concepts. Tables, timelines, and maps in every chapter include data summaries and key points. The book highlights peripheral points and background concepts in side boxes for easy reference and lists key ideas at the end of each chapter. This up-to-date and easy to read text is suitable for both classroom study and self-learning. .
  table of contents: Part I Introduction -- 1. The Reflection in the Mirror -- 2. Background: Evolutionary Classification and Fossil Dating -- 3. A Primate Heritage -- Part II The First Hominins -- 4. Miocene Hominoids -- 5. The Early Hominins: Australopiths -- 6. The Ecological Context of Early Hominin Evolution -- 7. Understanding Australopiths -- 8. The Evolution of Bipedality -- Part III The First Humans -- 9. The Earliest Humans in Africa -- 10. The First Technology -- 11. Diet of Early Homo -- 12. Evolution of the Brain -- 13. Leaving Africa -- Part IV The Middle Pleistocene -- 14. The Erectines of Asia -- 15. Erectines of the West -- 16. Behavior in the Middle Pleistocene -- Part V The Emergence of Modern People -- 17. Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans -- 18. From the Middle Paleolithic to the Modern Mind -- 19. Modern Humans Disperse From Africa -- 20. Distributing Modern Peoples -- 21. Life History and Reproduction -- 22. Evolution Today and Tomorrow.
  note: by John H. Langdon.
  subject:
    topic: Human evolution
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Physical anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Social evolution
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Physical-Biological Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  classification: GN281-289
  classification: 599.938
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    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Texts in Social Sciences
  identifier: 9978-3-031-14157-7
  identifier: 9783031141577
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  record info:
    record creation date: 221226
    record change date: 20240805185134.5
    record identifier: in00004657073