Early Hominids & Human Evolution

ISBN: 9780141037202
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
What makes us human? This is the fundamental question which Chris Stringer sets out to explore in this highly enganging survey of human evolution, aimed at the general reader. He first sets out the physical characteristics of modern humans, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780231147040
Published by : Columbia University Press
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 feedba... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842179734
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 challeng... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900648
Published by : Sidestone Press
Pterosauriërs is a popular scientific book about pterosaurs: flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The book answers many questions about these remarkable animals and presents the current state of research. The book features many ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780197264522
Published by : Oxford University Press
To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition -the social brain - in mediating the change... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674045668
Published by : Harvard University Press
Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674062016
Published by : Harvard University Press
Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521516457
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521736251
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such ... .... Learn More