Apes and Human Evolution / / Russell H. Tuttle.
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 r...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Chemistry, Materials Sc, Biol, Geosc 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1088 p.) :; 63 color illustrations, 72 halftones, 54 line illustrations, 6 maps, 22 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Mongrel Models and Seductive Scenarios of Human Evolution
- Part I. Terminology, Morphology, Genes, and Lots of Fossils
- 2. Apes in Space
- 3. Apes in Time
- 4 Taproot and Branches of Our Family Tree
- Part II. Positional and Subsistence Behaviors
- 5 Apes in Motion
- 6 Several Ways to Achieve Erection
- 7 Hungry and Sleepy Apes
- 8 Hunting Apes and Mutualism
- Part III. Hands, Tools, Brains, and Cognition
- 9. Handy Apes
- 10 Mental Apes
- Part IV. Sociality and Communication
- 11 Social, Antisocial, and Sexual Apes
- 12 Communicative Apes
- Part V. What makes us human?
- 13 Language, Culture, Ideology, Spirituality, and Morality
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index