Human Evolution: An Introduction for the Behavioural Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780367260248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 404 str.

Graham Richards

Opis

Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. The Nature of the Problem  2. Linnaeus to the Leakeys  3. Methods and Data-Bases  4. Brains and Sex, Meat and Reasons  5. Genes and Culture, Kindness and Speech  6. From Erectus to Sapiens  Appendix A: Principal pre-Modern Hominid Fossils  Appendix B: Development of the Hominid Jaw  Appendix C: Hominid Genealogy – Seventy-Two Possibilities  Bibliography  Name Index  Subject Index

O autorze

Graham Richards