Chimpanzees and Human Evolution / / Martin N. Muller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Muller, Martin N.,
• MitwirkendeR: Benenson, Joyce,; Boehm, Christopher,; Caldwell, Ann E.,; Carmody, Rachel N.,; Carvalho, Susana,; Chapais, Bernard,; Ellison, Peter T.,; Gilby, Ian C.,; Glowacki, Luke,; Gomes, Cristina M.,; Gurven, Michael D.,; Hamilton, Marian I.,; Hare, Brian,; Henrich, Joseph,; Hooper, Paul L.,; Jaeggi, Adrian V.,; Kaplan, Hillard S.,; Lancaster, Jane B.,; Lieberman, Daniel E.,; Muller, Martin N.,; Nelson, Sherry V.,; Pilbeam, David R.,; Pontzer, Herman,; Rolian, Campbell,; Rosati, Alexandra G.,; Scott-Phillips, Thom,; Slocombe, Katie E.,; Tennie, Claudio,; Thompson, Melissa Emery,; Wilson, Michael L.,; Wood, Brian M.,; Wrangham, Richard W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (794 p.) :; 41 halftones, 31 graphs, 27 tables

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain human uniqueness, by studying our closest living relatives. Their conclusions may transf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Part I. Was the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans Chimpanzee-Like?
• 1. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution
• 2. Reconstructing the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans
• 3. Equal, Similar, but Different: Convergent Bonobos and Conserved Chimpanzees
• Part II. Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
• 4. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Uniqueness
• 5. Mortality, Senescence, and Life Span
• 6. Fertility and Fecundity
• 7. Locomotor Ecology and Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans
• 8. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Initial Transitions
• 9. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Quest for High Quality
• 10. From Pan to Man the Hunter: Hunting and Meat Sharing by Chimpanzees, Humans, and Our Common Ancestor
• 11. The Evolution of the Human Mating System
• 12. From Chimpanzee Society to Human Society: Bridging the Kinship Gap
• 13. Violent Cousins: Chimpanzees, Humans, and the Roots of War
• 14. Cooperative and Competitive Relationships within Sexes
• 15. Cooperation between the Sexes
• 16. Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees and Humans
• 17. Tool Use and Manufacture in the Last Common Ancestor of Pan and Homo
• 18. Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans
• 19. Chimpanzee Cognition and the Roots of the Human Mind
• 20. Ancestral Precursors, Social Control, and Social Selection in the Evolution of Morals
• 21. Communication and Language
• Contributors
• Index