The Evolution Man
Author | : Roy Lewis |
Publisher | : Corgi Books |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1990-04-01 |
Genre | : Glacial epoch |
ISBN | : 9780552993463 |
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Author | : Roy Lewis |
Publisher | : Corgi Books |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1990-04-01 |
Genre | : Glacial epoch |
ISBN | : 9780552993463 |
Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donna Hart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429978715 |
Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds. The authors' studies of predators on monkeys and apes are supplemented here with the observations of naturalists in the field and revealing interpretations of the fossil record. Eyewitness accounts of the 'man the hunted' drama being played out even now give vivid evidence of its prehistoric significance. This provocative view of human evolution suggests that countless adaptations that have allowed our species to survive (from larger brains to speech), stem from a considerably more vulnerable position on the food chain than we might like to imagine. The myth of early humans as fearless hunters dominating the earth obscures our origins as just one of many species that had to be cautious, depend on other group members, communicate danger, and come to terms with being merely one cog in the complex cycle of life.
Author | : National Academy of Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
Author | : Scott Solomon |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0300208715 |
"Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing evidence that evolutionary forces still affect us today. But how will modernization--including longer lifespans, changing diets, global travel, and widespread use of medicine and contraceptives--affect our evolutionary future?" --publisher description.
Author | : Russell H. Tuttle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1089 |
Release | : 2014-02-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674073169 |
In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.
Author | : Ollivier Dyens |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2001-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780262262422 |
A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Author | : Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Examines both the biological and the cultural aspects of human evolution.
Author | : Russell L. Ciochon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2114 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317347773 |
For Junior, Senior, and Graduate courses in Human Evolution taught in anthropology and biology departments. This book is the most comprehensive collection of cutting edge articles on human evolution. Designed for use by students in anthropology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology, this edited volume brings together the major ideas and publications on human evolution of the past three decades. The book spans the entire scope of human evolution with particular emphasis on the fossil record, including archaeological studies.
Author | : Ernst Haeckel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Anatommy |
ISBN | : |