The Science of Human Origins

ISBN-13: 9781611329711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 186 str.

Claudio Tuniz; Giorgio Manzi; David Caramelli

Opis

Our understanding of human origins has been revolutionized by new discoveries in the past two decades. In this book, three leading paleoanthropologists and physical scientists illuminate, in friendly, accessible language, the amazing findings behind the latest theories. They describe new scientific and technical tools for dating, DNA analysis, remote survey, and paleoenvironmental assessment that enabled recent breakthroughs in research. They also explain the early development of the modern human cortex, the evolution of symbolic language and complex tools, and our strange cousins from Flores and Denisova.

Spis treści

Chapter 101 Prologue; Chapter 1 Human Origins: Just a Primer; Chapter 2 How (Many Millennia) Old Are You?; Chapter 3 What Bad Weather in the Pleistocene!; Chapter 4 New Microscopes and Quantitative Paleontology; Chapter 5 Reading Molecules in Fossils; Chapter 6 Stories of Molecules and Hominids; Chapter 102 Epilogue;

O autorze

Claudio Tuniz, Giorgio Manzi, David Caramelli