Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking human evolution / edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors

Schwartz, Jeffrey H.

Description

xv, 365 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Uniform Title

Vienna series in theoretical biology.

Subject

• Human evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The deceptive search for "missing links" in human evolution, 1860-2010 : do paleoanthropologists always work in the best interests of their discipline?/ Richard G. Delisle -- 2. Biological explanations and their limits : paleoanthropology among the sciences / Siobhan Mc Manus -- 3. Human and mammalian evolution : is there a difference? / John de Vos and Jelle W.F. Reumer -- 4. What's real about human evolution? : received wisdom, assumptions, and scenarios / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- 5. To tree or not to tree Homo sapiens / Rob DeSalle, Apurva Narechania, Martine Zilversmit, Jeff Rosenfeld, and Michael Tessler -- 6. Hypothesis compatibility versus hypothesis testing of models of human evolution / Alan R. Templeton -- 7. Out of Africa : the evolution and history of human populations in the southern dispersal zone / Michael D. Petraglia and Huw S. Groucutt -- 8. The phylogenomic origins and definition of Homo sapiens / Peter J . Waddell -- 9. "Like fixing an airplane in flight" : on paleoanthropology as an evolutionary discipline, or paleoanthropology for what? / Fred L. Bookstein -- 10. Back to basics : morphological analysis in paleoanthropology / Markus Bastir -- 11. Where evolutionary biology meets history : ethno-nationalism and modern human origins in East Asia / Robin Dennell -- 12. Referential models for the study of hominin evolution : how many do we need? / Gabriele A. Macho -- 13. Archeological sites from 2.6-2.0 Ma : toward a deeper understanding of the early Oldowan / Thomas W. Plummer and Emma M. Finestone -- 14. Human brain evolution : history or science? / Dietrich Stout -- 15. Brain size and the emergence of modern human cognition / Ian Tattersall -- 16. Sex, reproduction, and scenarios of human evolution / Claudine Cohen.

Call Number

JFE 18-2624

ISBN

• 9780262037327
• 0262037327

LCCN

2017027095

OCLC

992168127

Title

Rethinking human evolution / edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Vienna series in theoretical biology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Schwartz, Jeffrey H., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2624