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edition: 1
Authors: John H. Langdon (auth.)
serie:
ISBN : 9783319415857, 9783319415840
publisher: Springer International Publishing
publish year: 2016
pages: 229
language: English
ebook format : PDF (It will be converted to PDF, EPUB OR AZW3 if requested by the user)
file size: 10 MB
Related keywords of The Science of Human Evolution: Getting it Right book : Evolutionary Biology,Biological Anthropology,Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology,History of Science,Archaeology,Developmental Biology
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Case Study 1. The Darwinian Paradigm: An Evolving World View....Pages 1-8
Case Study 2. Proving Prehistory: William Pengelly and Scientific Excavation....Pages 9-15
Case Study 3. Testing Predictions: Eugene Dubois and the Missing Link....Pages 17-23
Case Study 4. Self-Correcting Science: The Piltdown Forgery....Pages 25-35
Case Study 5. Checking the Time: Geological Dating at Olduvai Gorge....Pages 37-42
Case Study 6. Quantifying Evolution: Morris Goodman and Molecular Phylogeny....Pages 43-49
Case Study 7. Reinterpreting Ramapithecus: Reconciling Fossils and Molecules....Pages 51-58
Case Study 8. Taming the Killer Ape: The Science of Taphonomy....Pages 59-65
Case Study 9. Reading the Bones (1): Recognizing Bipedalism....Pages 67-73
Case Study 10. Reading the Bones (2): Sizing Up the Ancestors....Pages 75-81
Case Study 11. The Habilis Workbench: Experimental Archaeology....Pages 83-90
Case Study 12. Hunting for Predators: The Scavenging Hypothesis....Pages 91-97
Case Study 13. Climate Change in the Pliocene: Environment and Human Origins....Pages 99-108
Case Study 14. Free Range Homo: Modernizing the Body at Dmanisi....Pages 109-115
Case Study 15. Reading the Bones (3): Tracking Life History at Nariokotome....Pages 117-122
Case Study 16. Democratizing Homo naledi: A New Model for Fossil Hominin Studies....Pages 123-132
Case Study 17. A Curious Isolation: The Hobbits of Flores....Pages 133-140
Case Study 18. Neanderthals in the Mirror: Imagining our Relatives....Pages 141-149
Case Study 19. Leaving Africa: Mitochondrial Eve....Pages 151-158
Case Study 20. The Neanderthal Problem: Neighbors and Relatives on Mt. Carmel....Pages 159-166
Case Study 21. Chasing Smaller Game: The Archaeology of Modernity....Pages 167-174
Case Study 22. The Cutting Edge of Science: Kissing Cousins Revealed Through Ancient DNA....Pages 175-182
Case Study 23. Is Humanity Sustainable? Tracking the Source of our Ecological Uniqueness....Pages 183-194
Case Study 24. The Unknowable Biped: Questions We Cannot Answer....Pages 195-202
Case Study 25. Parallel Paradigms: Umbrella Hypotheses and Aquatic Apes....Pages 203-208
Case Study 26. What Science Is: A Cultural and Legal Challenge....Pages 209-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-220
