Ideas on Human Evolution : : Selected Essays, 1949–1961 / / ed. by William Howells.

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• MitwirkendeR: Barth, Fredrik,; Bartholomew, George A.,; Birdsell, Joseph B.,; Breitinger, Emil,; Bronowski, J.,; Dobzhansky, Theodosius,; Gregory, William X.,; Howell, F. Clark,; Koenigswald, G. H. R. Von,; Le Gros Clark, W. E.,; Long, W. M.,; Mayr, Ernst,; Oakley, Kenneth,; Palterson, Bryan,; Robinson, J. T.,; Schultz, Adolph H.,; Sergi, Sergio,; Simpson, George Gaylord,; Straus, William L.,; Vallois, Henri-V.,; Washburn, S.L.,; Weherer, Gerhard,; Weidenreich, Franz,; Weiner, J. S.,; Wells, L. H.,; Вreitinger, Emil,
• HerausgeberIn: Howells, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (555 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The Study of Evolution: Methods and Present Status of Theory -- Evolution at Work -- The Physical Distinctions of Man -- The Riddle of Man's Ancestry -- The Bearing of the Australopithecinae Upon the Problem of Man's Place in Nature -- On the Relationships of Early Primates -- The Geologic History of Nοn-Hominid Primates in the Old World -- The Analysis of Primate Evolution with Particular Reference to the Origin of Man -- On the Earliest Phase of Hominid Evolution -- The Subhuman Evolutionary History of Man -- Taxonomic Categories in Fossil Hominids -- Prehominid Dentition and Hominid Evolution -- The Genera and Species of the Australopithecinae -- The Australopithecines and Their Bearing on the Origin of Man and of Stone Tool-Making -- The Hominization of the Masticatory Apparatus, and Modifications of Diet -- Morphological and Phylogenetic Problems of Taxonomy in Relation to Hominid Evolution -- Вones of Contention -- Statistics of Discrimination in Anthropology -- Ecology and the Protohominids -- The Villafranchian and Human Origins -- Tools Makyth Man -- On the Phyletic Evolution of Homo sapiens -- A Reconsideration of Some Mandibular Profiles -- Interpretations of the Fossil Material -- The Origin of Homo sapiens -- The Neanderthal Palaeanthropi in Italy -- Morphological Position of the "Prophaneranthropi" (Swanscombe and Fontéchevade) -- The Pattern of Evolutionary Development of the Genus Homo -- Bibliography