Human Paleobiology

Human Paleobiology / Robert B. Eckhardt.

Human Paleobiology explores the adaptability and variation in past and present human populations under a range of changing environmental conditions. Using a historical approach emphasizing phenotypic features instead of complex taxonomy, it will be a stimulating and challenging read for all those in...

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Main Author: Eckhardt, Robert B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
Subjects:
Physical anthropology.
Paleobiology.
Human evolution.
Fossil hominids.
Evolution (Biology)
Paleontology.
physical anthropology.
evolution.
paleontology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Paleontology
Fossil hominids
Human evolution
Paleobiology
Physical anthropology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Paleobiology: present perspectives on the past; 2 Constancy and change: taxonomic uncertainty in a probabilistic world; 3 A century of fossils; 4 About a century of theory; 5 Human adaptability present and past; 6 Primate pattern of diversity and adaptation; 7 Hominid phylogeny: morphological and molecular measures of diversity; 8 Plio-Pleistocene hominids: the paleobiology of fragmented populations; 9 Character state velocity in the emergence of more advanced hominids.

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