On becoming human / Nancy Makepeace Tanner
- Bib ID:
- 1425592
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tanner, Nancy Makepeace
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981
- xviii, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521235545
- 0521280281
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Darwin and the descent of 'man'; 2. Models in evolution; 3. African apes and human evolution; 4. Chimpanzees as a model of the ancestral population: locomotion, tools and diet; 5. Chimpanzees as a model of the ancestral population: social organisation and interaction; 6. Chimpanzees as a model of ancestral population: mental capacities, communication and sociation - bases for the evolution of the capacity for culture; 7. The transition to Australopithecus: natural and sexual selection in human origins; 8. Evidence on the transition: what can the earliest hominid fossils reveal about the ancestral population and the transition?; 9. Gathering and the australopithecine way of life; 10. Early hominid lifeways: the critical role of an interpretive framework; 11. Conclusion: becoming human; Bibliography; Acknowledgements and bibliography for illustrations; Indexes.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 278-360.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1981
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