Research Catalog

Title

The origin & evolution of man; readings in physical anthropology.

Author

Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999

Publication

New York, Crowell [1973]

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Details

Description

xii, 588 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Physical anthropology
• Human evolution
• Anthropology, Physical
• physical anthropology
• Human evolution
• Physical anthropology
• Civilization, Medieval
• Middle Ages
• Europe > History > 476-1492

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Physical anthropology -- 1. The strategy of physical anthropology / Sherwood L. Washburn -- History of our knowledge of the apes -- 2. Early concepts of the Anthropomorpha / C.D. O'Malley and H.W. Magoun -- Apes and men -- 3. The recent Hominoid primates / Adolph H. Schultz -- Problems of classification -- 4. The meaning of taxonomic statements / George Gaylord Simpson -- 5. Some fallacies in the study of Hominid phylogeny / Elwyn L. Simons -- 6. Some problems of Hominid classification / D.R. Pilbeam and Elwyn L. Simons -- 7. The cultural and phylogenetic status of Australopithecus Boisei and of the Australopithecines in general / P.V. Tobias -- Environmental challenges and the Protohominids -- 8. Brain size and hunting ability in earliest man / Grover S. Krantz -- 9. Hunting : an integrating biobehavior system and its evolutionary importance / William S. Laughlin -- The larger-brained Hominids -- 10. Middle and later Pleistocene Hominids / D.R. Pilbeam -- 11. Where and when did man become wise? / Don R. Brothwell -- On being careful -- 12. The piltdown hoax / Ashley Montagu -- 13. Pathology and the posture of Neanderthal man / William L. Straus and A.J.E. Cave -- 14. The argument from animals to man : an examination of its validity for anthropology / J.B.S. Haldane -- 15. Wolf children / Ashley Montagu
• Development by juvenilization -- 16. The meaning of neonatal and infant immaturity in man / Ashley Montagu -- Culture as a factor in man's physical evolution -- 17. In the beginnings : aspects of Hominid behavioral evolution / Robin Fox -- Social behavior of nonhuman primates -- 18. Social behavior and ethology / John Hurrell Crook -- 19. Some factors influencing the social life of primates in general and of early man in particular / Adolph H. Schultz -- 20. Social behavior in Japanese monkeys, Macaca Fuscata / Kinji Imanishi -- 21. The social development of monkeys and apes / William A. Mason -- 22. Primate field studies and human evolution / Phyllis Jay -- Hair, sweat, tears, and body form -- 23. Natural selection and man's relative hairlessness / Ashley Montagu -- 24. Why man is such a sweaty and thirsty naked animal : a speculative review / Russell W. Newman -- 25. On the relation between body size, waking activity, and the origin of social life in the primates / Ashley Montagu -- Aggression -- 26. The socio-ecology of primates : group characteristics and inference to man / John Hurrell Crook -- 27. Instincts and chromosomes : what is an "innate" act? / Peter H. Klopfer -- 28. Competitive and aggressive behavior / Edward O. Wilson
• Race -- 29. The concept of race / Lancelot Hogben -- 30. The concept of race and the taxonomy of mankind / Jean Hiernaux -- 31. A biological view of race / Paul R. Ehrlich and Richard W. Holm -- 32. Natural selection and the mental capacities of mankind / Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu -- 33. Race and IQ : the genetic background / W.F. Bodmer -- 34. Brain size, grey matter and race : fact or fiction? / Philip V. Tobias -- 35. African ancestry of the white American population / Robert P. Stuckert -- 36. Caucasian genes in American negros / T. Edward Reed -- 37. Evidence of heterosis in man / L.S. Penrose.

ISBN

• 069060081X
• 9780690600810

LCCN

73003351

OCLC

• ocm00590186
• 590186
• SCSB-8879794

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library