Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man's Adaptations

ISBN-13: 9780202020426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 542 str.

Bernard Grant Campbell

Opis

In this new fourth edition, Campbell has revised and updated his classic introduction to the field. Human Evolution synthesizes the major findings of modern research and theory and presents a complete and integrated account of the evolution of human beings. New developments in microbiology and recent fossil records are incorporated into the enormous range of this volume, with the resulting text as lucid and comprehensive as earlier editions.

Spis treści

Evolution and environment; mammals - progress in homeostasis; the primate radiation; the fossil evidence - the hominidae; body structure and posture; locomotion and the hindlimb; manipulation and the forelimb; the head function and structure; feeding, ecology, and behaviour; reproduction, social structure and the family; culture and society; human evolution.

O autorze

Bernard Campbell has achieved a position of eminence in anthropological circles. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard and Cambridge, and has taught and conducted research in East and South Africa. Dr. Campbell was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1970 - 1976, and is the author or coauthor of several books, including "Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man"; "Human Ecology (Second Edition)"; "Humankind Emerging"; and the definitive three-volume "Catalogue of Fossil Hominids".