Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / edited by Wil Roebroeks.

Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains?

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Roebroeks, Wil
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2007.
Series:	LUP academic.
Subjects:	Human beings > Origin. Fossil hominids. Diet > History. Brain > Evolution. Diet in disease. Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. NATURE > Fossils. Diet in disease Brain > Evolution Diet Fossil hominids Human beings > Origin Mensch Evolution Intelligenz Ernährung History
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Table of Contents:

Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / Wil Roebroeks
Notes on the implications of the expensive tissue hypothesis for human biological and social evolution / Leslie C. Aiello
Energetics and the evolution of brain size in early Homo / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass
The evolution of diet, brain and life history among primates and humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and others]
Why hominins had big brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar
Ecological hypotheses for human brain evolution : evidence for skill and learning processes in the ethnographic literature on hunting / Katharine MacDonald
Haak en steek
the tool that allowed hominins to colonize the African savanna and to flourish there / R. Dale Guthrie
Women of the middle latitudes : the earliest peopling of Europe from a female perspective / Margherita Mussi
The diet of early hominins : some things we need to know before "reading" the menu from the archaeological record / Lewis R. Binford
Diet shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe? : the stable isotope evidence / Michael P. Richards
The evolution of the human niche : integrating models with the fossil record / Najma Anwar [and others].

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