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How humans evolved

By: Boyd, RobertContributor(s): Silk, Joan BMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)ISBN: 9780393974775; 0393974774Subject(s): Human evolutionDDC classification: 573.2

Contents:

How Evolution Works -- Adaptation by Natural Selection -- Explaining Adaptation before Darwin -- Darwin's Theory of Adaptation -- Darwin's Postulates -- An Example of Adaptation by Natural Selection -- Individual Selection -- The Evolution of Complex Adaptations -- Why Small Variations Are Important -- Why Intermediate Steps Are Favored by Selection -- Rates of Evolutionary Change -- Darwin's Difficulties Explaining Variation -- Genetics -- Mendelian Genetics -- Cell Division and the Role of Chromosomes in Inheritance -- Mitosis and Meiosis -- Chromosomes and Mendel's Experimental Results -- Linkage and Recombination -- Molecular Genetics -- Genes Are DNA -- The Chemical Basis of Life -- DNA Codes for Protein -- Not All DNA Codes for Proteins -- The Modern Synthesis -- Population Genetics -- Genes in Populations -- How Random Mating and Sexual Reproduction Change Genotypic Frequencies -- How Natural Selection Changes Gene Frequencies -- The Modern Synthesis -- The Genetics of Continuous Variation -- How Variation Is Maintained -- Natural Selection and Behavior -- Constraints on Adaptation -- Correlated Characters -- Disequilibrium -- Genetic Drift -- Local versus Optimal Adaptations -- Other Constraints on Evolution -- Speciation and Phylogeny -- What Are Species? -- The Biological Species Concept -- The Ecological Species Concept -- The Origin of Species -- Allopatric Speciation -- Parapatric and Sympatric Speciation -- The Tree of Life -- Why Reconstruct Phylogenies? -- How to Reconstruct Phylogenies -- Problems Due to Convergence -- Problems Due to Ancestral Characters -- Reconstructing Phylogenies Using Genetic Distance Data -- Taxonomy -- Naming Names -- Primate Ecology and Behavior -- Introduction to the Primates -- Two Reasons to Study the Primates -- Primates Are Our Closest Relatives -- Primates Are a Diverse Order -- Features That Define the Primates -- Primate Biogeography -- A Taxonomy of Living Primates -- The Prosimians -- The Anthropoids -- Primate Conservation -- Primate Ecology -- The Distribution of Food -- Activity Patterns -- Ranging Behavior -- Predation -- Primate Mating Systems -- The Language of Adaptive Explanations -- The Evolution of Reproductive Strategies -- Reproductive Strategies of Primate Females -- Female Dominance Hierarchies -- Reproductive Tradeoffs -- Primate Sociality -- Why Do Primates Live in Groups? -- How Big Should Groups Be? -- What Kinds of Groups Should Primates Form? -- Sexual Selection and Male Mating Strategies -- Intrasexual Selection in Primates -- Intersexual Selection in Primates -- Sexual Selection and Primate Behavior -- Monogamous Males -- One-Male, Multifemale Groups -- Multimale, Multifemale Groups -- The Evolution of Social Behavior -- Kinds of Social Interactions -- Altruism: A Conundrum -- Kin Selection -- Hamilton's Rule -- Evidence of Kin Selection in Primates -- Reciprocal Altruism -- Primate Intelligence -- What Is Intelligence? -- Why Are Primates So Smart? -- Hypotheses Explaining Primate Intelligence -- Testing Models of the Evolution of Intelligence -- The Value of Studying Primate Behavior -- The History of the Human Lineage -- From Tree Shrew to Ape -- Continental Drift and Climate Change -- The Methods of Paleontology -- The Evolution of the Early Primates -- The First Anthropoids -- The Emergence of the Hominoids -- The Earliest Hominids -- Australopithecus afarensis -- Morphology -- Bipedal Locomotion -- Other Features of A. afarensis -- When Is a Hominoid Also a Hominid? -- Hominids before A. afarensis -- Australopithecines after A. afarensis -- A. africanus -- Robust Australopithecines -- Early Homo -- Traits Defining Early Homo -- How Many Species? -- Flaked Stone Tools -- Hominid Phylogenies -- Before the Discovery of WT 17000 -- After the Discovery of WT 17000 -- The Lives of Early Hominids -- From Ape to Human -- Early Hominid Environments -- Early Hominid Ecology -- The Emergence of Meat Eating -- Why Meat Eating Is Important -- Comparison with Hunting in Chimpanzees -- Seasonality and Meat Eating -- Archaeological Evidence in Early Hominids -- Hunters or Scavengers? -- Early Hominid Social Organization -- Sexual Division of Labor -- Food Sharing -- Archaeological Evidence -- The Ancients -- Homo erectus -- Acheulean Tools -- H. erectus Peoples the World -- Cultural Adaptations of H. erectus -- Middle Pleistocene Hominids: Archaic Homo sapiens -- Upper Pleistocene Hominids: Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries -- Mousterian and Middle Stone Age Tools -- Neanderthal Lifeways -- The Moderns -- The Emergence of Anatomically Modern People -- The Upper Paleolithic -- the Human Revolution -- Technology and Culture -- Symbolic Behavior -- Subsistence and Social Organization -- Models for the Origin and Spread of Anatomically Modern Humans -- Evidence from Fossils and Tool Kits -- Genetic Data -- The Evolution of Language -- Language Is an Adaptation -- Speech Production and Perception -- Grammar -- Language Capacities Are Derived -- How Language Evolved -- When Language Evolved -- Did Language Arise Early? -- Did Language Arise Late? -- Evolution and Modern Humans -- Human Genetic Diversity -- Explaining Human Variation -- Variation in Traits Influenced by Single Genes -- Causes of Genetic Variation within Groups -- Causes of Genetic Variation among Groups -- Variation in Complex Phenotypic Traits -- Genetic Variation within Groups -- Genetic Variation among Groups -- The Race Concept -- Evolution and the Human Life Cycle -- Maternal-Fetal Conflict during Pregnancy -- Why There Is Parent-Offspring Conflict -- Spontaneous Abortion -- Blood Sugar -- The Evolution of Senescence -- Two Evolutionary Theories of Senescence -- Evidence for the Theories -- The Evolution of Menopause -- Evolution and Human Behavior -- Why Evolution Is Relevant to Human Behavior -- Evolutionary Psychology -- The Logic of Evolutionary Psychology -- Reasoning about Reciprocity -- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Universals -- Color Terms -- Inbreeding Avoidance -- Evolution and Human Culture -- Culture Is a Derived Trait in Humans -- Culture Is an Adaptation -- Human Behavioral Ecology -- Human Mate Choice and Parenting -- The Psychology of Human Mate Preferences -- Some Social Consequences of Mate Preferences -- Kipsigis Bridewealth -- Nyinba Polyandry -- Raising Children -- Child Abuse and Infanticide -- Cross-Cultural Patterns of Infanticide -- Child Abuse in the United States and Canada -- Adoption -- Adoption in Oceania -- Adoption in Industrialized Societies -- Family Size -- Is Human Evolution Over? -- Epilogue: There Is Grandeur in this View of Life -- The Skeletal Anatomy of Primates.

Summary: This is a compelling account of the evolution of the human species. This successful introductory text shows how an understanding of evolutionary theory and a knowledge of primate behavioral ecology can be combined with clues from the fossil and archaeological records to explain why we look and act the way we do.

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Included Index and glossary

How Evolution Works --
Adaptation by Natural Selection --
Explaining Adaptation before Darwin --
Darwin's Theory of Adaptation --
Darwin's Postulates --
An Example of Adaptation by Natural Selection --
Individual Selection --
The Evolution of Complex Adaptations --
Why Small Variations Are Important --
Why Intermediate Steps Are Favored by Selection --
Rates of Evolutionary Change --
Darwin's Difficulties Explaining Variation --
Genetics --
Mendelian Genetics --
Cell Division and the Role of Chromosomes in Inheritance --
Mitosis and Meiosis --
Chromosomes and Mendel's Experimental Results --
Linkage and Recombination --
Molecular Genetics --
Genes Are DNA --
The Chemical Basis of Life --
DNA Codes for Protein --
Not All DNA Codes for Proteins --
The Modern Synthesis --
Population Genetics --
Genes in Populations --
How Random Mating and Sexual Reproduction Change Genotypic Frequencies --
How Natural Selection Changes Gene Frequencies --
The Modern Synthesis --
The Genetics of Continuous Variation --
How Variation Is Maintained --
Natural Selection and Behavior --
Constraints on Adaptation --
Correlated Characters --
Disequilibrium --
Genetic Drift --
Local versus Optimal Adaptations --
Other Constraints on Evolution --
Speciation and Phylogeny --
What Are Species? --
The Biological Species Concept --
The Ecological Species Concept --
The Origin of Species --
Allopatric Speciation --
Parapatric and Sympatric Speciation --
The Tree of Life --
Why Reconstruct Phylogenies? --
How to Reconstruct Phylogenies --
Problems Due to Convergence --
Problems Due to Ancestral Characters --
Reconstructing Phylogenies Using Genetic Distance Data --
Taxonomy --
Naming Names --
Primate Ecology and Behavior --
Introduction to the Primates --
Two Reasons to Study the Primates --
Primates Are Our Closest Relatives --
Primates Are a Diverse Order --
Features That Define the Primates --
Primate Biogeography --
A Taxonomy of Living Primates --
The Prosimians --
The Anthropoids --
Primate Conservation --
Primate Ecology --
The Distribution of Food --
Activity Patterns --
Ranging Behavior --
Predation --
Primate Mating Systems --
The Language of Adaptive Explanations --
The Evolution of Reproductive Strategies --
Reproductive Strategies of Primate Females --
Female Dominance Hierarchies --
Reproductive Tradeoffs --
Primate Sociality --
Why Do Primates Live in Groups? --
How Big Should Groups Be? --
What Kinds of Groups Should Primates Form? --
Sexual Selection and Male Mating Strategies --
Intrasexual Selection in Primates --
Intersexual Selection in Primates --
Sexual Selection and Primate Behavior --
Monogamous Males --
One-Male, Multifemale Groups --
Multimale, Multifemale Groups --
The Evolution of Social Behavior --
Kinds of Social Interactions --
Altruism: A Conundrum --
Kin Selection --
Hamilton's Rule --
Evidence of Kin Selection in Primates --
Reciprocal Altruism --
Primate Intelligence --
What Is Intelligence? --
Why Are Primates So Smart? --
Hypotheses Explaining Primate Intelligence --
Testing Models of the Evolution of Intelligence --
The Value of Studying Primate Behavior --
The History of the Human Lineage --
From Tree Shrew to Ape --
Continental Drift and Climate Change --
The Methods of Paleontology --
The Evolution of the Early Primates --
The First Anthropoids --
The Emergence of the Hominoids --
The Earliest Hominids --
Australopithecus afarensis --
Morphology --
Bipedal Locomotion --
Other Features of A. afarensis --
When Is a Hominoid Also a Hominid? --
Hominids before A. afarensis --
Australopithecines after A. afarensis --
A. africanus --
Robust Australopithecines --
Early Homo --
Traits Defining Early Homo --
How Many Species? --
Flaked Stone Tools --
Hominid Phylogenies --
Before the Discovery of WT 17000 --
After the Discovery of WT 17000 --
The Lives of Early Hominids --
From Ape to Human --
Early Hominid Environments --
Early Hominid Ecology --
The Emergence of Meat Eating --
Why Meat Eating Is Important --
Comparison with Hunting in Chimpanzees --
Seasonality and Meat Eating --
Archaeological Evidence in Early Hominids --
Hunters or Scavengers? --
Early Hominid Social Organization --
Sexual Division of Labor --
Food Sharing --
Archaeological Evidence --
The Ancients --
Homo erectus --
Acheulean Tools --
H. erectus Peoples the World --
Cultural Adaptations of H. erectus --
Middle Pleistocene Hominids: Archaic Homo sapiens --
Upper Pleistocene Hominids: Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries --
Mousterian and Middle Stone Age Tools --
Neanderthal Lifeways --
The Moderns --
The Emergence of Anatomically Modern People --
The Upper Paleolithic --
the Human Revolution --
Technology and Culture --
Symbolic Behavior --
Subsistence and Social Organization --
Models for the Origin and Spread of Anatomically Modern Humans --
Evidence from Fossils and Tool Kits --
Genetic Data --
The Evolution of Language --
Language Is an Adaptation --
Speech Production and Perception --
Grammar --
Language Capacities Are Derived --
How Language Evolved --
When Language Evolved --
Did Language Arise Early? --
Did Language Arise Late? --
Evolution and Modern Humans --
Human Genetic Diversity --
Explaining Human Variation --
Variation in Traits Influenced by Single Genes --
Causes of Genetic Variation within Groups --
Causes of Genetic Variation among Groups --
Variation in Complex Phenotypic Traits --
Genetic Variation within Groups --
Genetic Variation among Groups --
The Race Concept --
Evolution and the Human Life Cycle --
Maternal-Fetal Conflict during Pregnancy --
Why There Is Parent-Offspring Conflict --
Spontaneous Abortion --
Blood Sugar --
The Evolution of Senescence --
Two Evolutionary Theories of Senescence --
Evidence for the Theories --
The Evolution of Menopause --
Evolution and Human Behavior --
Why Evolution Is Relevant to Human Behavior --
Evolutionary Psychology --
The Logic of Evolutionary Psychology --
Reasoning about Reciprocity --
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Universals --
Color Terms --
Inbreeding Avoidance --
Evolution and Human Culture --
Culture Is a Derived Trait in Humans --
Culture Is an Adaptation --
Human Behavioral Ecology --
Human Mate Choice and Parenting --
The Psychology of Human Mate Preferences --
Some Social Consequences of Mate Preferences --
Kipsigis Bridewealth --
Nyinba Polyandry --
Raising Children --
Child Abuse and Infanticide --
Cross-Cultural Patterns of Infanticide --
Child Abuse in the United States and Canada --
Adoption --
Adoption in Oceania --
Adoption in Industrialized Societies --
Family Size --
Is Human Evolution Over? --
Epilogue: There Is Grandeur in this View of Life --
The Skeletal Anatomy of Primates.

This is a compelling account of the evolution of the human species. This successful introductory text shows how an understanding of evolutionary theory and a knowledge of primate behavioral ecology can be combined with clues from the fossil and archaeological records to explain why we look and act the way we do.

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