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Human Evolution

The Evolution of the Human Mind: From Supernaturalism to Naturalism - An Anthropological Perspective
by Robert L. Carneiro
This is the first single book to document the evolution in human thinking from a belief in supernaturalism to a belief in naturalism. The author shows how the ideas that people have held through the centuries about the world have developed from human experience - particularly during the last four hundred years - to the point today where, for the first time in human history, we see scientists in whom a belief in naturalism is complete and ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.95
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Becoming Neanderthals: the Earlier British Middle Palaeolithic
by Beccy Scott
It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. More recently, researchers have become interested in how these skills actually emerged; in effect, the challenge now is to document the process by which Middle Pleistocene hominids "became Neanderthals". This book explores the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, focusing on ...
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The Human Brain Evolving: Paleoneurological Studies in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway
edited by Douglas Broadfield, Michael Yuan, Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
The Human Brain Evolving: Paleoneurological Studies in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway presents a range of important studies focusing on human brain evolution. Based upon a Stone Age Institute conference held at Indiana University, Bloomington, this book features many of the principal investigators in palaeoneurology and related fields. Topics include theoretical concepts, studies of fossil and modern brain endocasts, genetic studies, neurological ...
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How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies
by Dwight W. Read
What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this field: one that sees us as a ...
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The Complete World of Human Evolution
by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews
The clue is the title. With two experts in the field with more than thirty years experience to guide you, this book really does encompass The Complete world of Human Evolution. Whilst many books focus on a few aspects of the story, this one covers a great deal of ground concerning the advances in scientific techniques used to study our earliest ancestors, the fossil record and the impact of some very recent discoveries, and how the ...
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Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
by Andrew Shyrick and Daniel Lord Smail
Aiming to reintegrate the vast span of human prehistory with our conception of the framework of history, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more. Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, "Deep History" invites ...
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The Evolution of the Human Head
by Daniel E. Lieberman
In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew, smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual. Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are short and wide, very big brained, snoutless, largely furless, and perched on a short, nearly vertical neck. Daniel E. Lieberman sets out to explain how the human head works, and why our heads evolved ...
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The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
by Dean Falk
The two discoveries to which the title here refers are that of the Tuang child in 1924, and that of Homo floresiensis, referred to as the Hobbit. Dean Falk, an expert on brain evolution, tells the enthralling story of the controversy, scientific, political and religious, which surrounded each of them, drawing on her own experience in working on the Hobbit. In comparing the two and in particular their brains, she aims to show that the Hobbit is ...
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The Hobbit Trap: How New Species are Invented
by Maciej Henneberg, Robert B. Eckhardt and John Schofield
When scientists found the remains of a tiny hominid on an Indonesian in 2004, they claimed they found a totally new species of human ancestor (homo floresiensis), and called it a Hobbit. Film crews rolled in and the little creature took the world by storm, but a group of prominent scientists, including Maciej Henneberg and Robert Eckhardt, smelled a rat. They refuted the datathe size and shape of bones, the inferences about heightand they raised ...
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Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought
by John T. Hoffecker
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity ...
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