Human evolution : a very short introduction /
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Author / Creator: | Wood, Bernard A. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
Description: | 131 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Very short introductions ; 142 |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5787338 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Finding our place
- 3. Fossil hominins: their discovery and context
- 4. Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation
- 5. Early hominins: possible and probable
- 6. Archaic and transitional hominins
- 7. Pre-modern Homo
- 8. Modern Homo
- Timeline of thought and science relevant to human origins and evolution
- Further reading
- Index