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An ape's view of human evolution
- Title
- An ape's view of human evolution / Peter Andrews.
- Author
- Andrews, Peter, 1940-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 16-566 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 309 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- "Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology, this book provides a new perspective on human evolution. What can fossil apes tell us about the origins of human evolution? Did the last common ancestor of apes and humans live in trees or on the ground? What did it eat, and how did it survive in a world full of large predators? Did it look anything like living apes? Andrews addresses these questions and more to reconstruct the common ancestor and its habitat. Synthesising thirty-five years of work on both ancient environments and fossil and modern ape anatomy, this book provides unique new insights into the evolutionary processes that led to the origins of the human lineage"--
- Alternative Title
- Human evolution
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-300) and index.
- Contents
- How can we recognise common ancestors? -- Morphology and behaviour of living apes -- Human and ape phylogenies -- Review of fossil apes -- Structure and composition of ape environments -- Environmental indicators -- The view from the Early Miocene -- The environment in the early Miocene -- The view from the middle Miocene -- Specialized apes from the middle Miocene -- The environment in the middle Miocene -- A second view from Europe -- The environment in Europe -- Late Miocene to Pleistocene apes -- Apes, hominins and environment in the late Miocene -- Putting together the evidence -- An ape's view of human evolution.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-566
- ISBN
- 9781107100671
- 1107100674
- LCCN
- 2015013762
- OCLC
- 911255231
- Author
- Andrews, Peter, 1940- author.
- Title
- An ape's view of human evolution / Peter Andrews.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-300) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- From 10 to 25 million years ago
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-566