The chosen species : the long march of human evolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Arsuaga, Juan Luis de |
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| Uniform title: | Especie elegida. English |
| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. |
| Description: | viii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5722053 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Prehistory
- Little Lucy
- Intrepid Paleontologists
- Part I. Children of Africa
- 1. Basic Principles of Evolutionary Theory
- The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
- Natural Selection
- The Staircase of Progress
- 2. We the Primates
- The Ecological Definition and Diversity of Primates
- The Classification of Primates
- Hominoids, Apes of Our Own Branch
- History of the Primates
- 3. Climate and Evolution
- The Origin of Species
- Climate Changes over the Last Few Million Years
- Paleotemperature Scales
- Factors in Climate Change
- Milankovitch Cycles
- A Climatic Model for Equatorial Africa
- The Controversial Gas
- The End of Paradise
- 4. The Origin of Humanity
- Molecular Clocks
- The First Fossil Hominids
- Change of Habitat
- East Side Story
- Dating Fossils
- The Taung Child
- Distinguishing Marks
- 5. The Bipedal Chimpanzee
- The Great Step
- The Laetoli Footprints
- The Mystery of Mysteries of Human Evolution
- Portrait of the Entire Body of an Australopithecine
- 6. Paranthropus - Hominids of the Open Plains
- The Emergence and Distribution of Paranthropus
- The Specialist
- 7. A New Kind of Hominid
- The First Humans
- The Stone Cutters
- The Diversification of Homo
- Ready for the Great Leap
- Family Relationships
- The Science of Relationships
- The Hominid Tree
- 8. The Evolution of the Brain
- The Organ of Intelligence
- Large and Small Brains
- World Champions of Encephalization
- Weighing Ghosts
- The Brain Size of Fossil Hominids
- Surface Area of the Brain
- The Size of the Intellect
- 9. Teeth, Guts, Hands, Brain
- Types of Diet
- Carnivorous and Herbivorous Mammals
- The Teeth of Primates
- The Teeth of the First Hominids
- Size of the Molars and Shape of the Hand
- Guts and Brain
- 10. Development
- The Rhythm of the Molars
- Birth and the Newborn
- Childhood and Adolescence
- 11. Social Intelligence
- The Unexciting Sex Life of the Female Orangutan
- Behavior as Adaptation
- Comparative Sociobiology of Hominoids
- Natural Selection and Sexual Selection
- Bipedal and Monogamous from the Beginning?
- Brain Size and Size of Social Group
- Summary
- Part II. A New Home
- 12. New Locations for Human Evolution
- Homo erectus and the Settlement of Asia
- The First Europeans
- Gran Dolina and the First Europeans
- Prehistoric Cannibalism
- Homo antecessor
- Human Evolution in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene
- The Pit of Bones
- 13. The Neanderthals
- The Way They Were
- Life and Death among the Neanderthals
- The Beginning and End of the Neanderthals
- 14. The Origins of Modern Humanity: The Fossil Evidence
- Neanderthals and Modern Humans
- Two Intelligent Human Species
- The Levant: A Crossroads
- To the Easternmost Edge of Asia
- The African Origin of Homo sapiens
- 15. The Origins of Modern Humanity: The Genetic Evidence
- A Brilliant Idea
- The Molecules of Inheritance
- Black Eve
- An Adam for Eve
- The Other Chromosomes
- Pleistocene Park
- Fossils and Molecules
- Standards of Beauty
- 16. The Origins of Human Language
- King Solomon's Ring
- Language and Brain
- The Choking Primate
- The Production of Speech
- The Fossils Speak
- Group Selection and the Extinction of the Neanderthals
- The Crooked Lines of Natural Selection
- 17. The Meaning of Evolution
- The Action Replay of Life
- Organization and Chaos
- Epilogue
- The Never-ending Story
- Bibliography