Classification and Human Evolution
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-30935-4 (ISBN)
The papers in this volume were prepared by the world's leading authorities on the subject, and were revised in the light of discussions at a remarkable conference held in Austria in 1962 under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The authors review first the meaning of taxonomic statements as such, and then consider the substance of our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors. They also examine the relationship of behavior changes and selection pressures in evolutionary sequences.
Ample illustrations, bibliographies and an index enhance the permanent reference value of the book, which will undoubtedly prove to be among the fundamental paleoanthropological works of our time.
Sherwood L. Washburn (1911-2000) was professor of physical anthropology in the University of California at Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Huxley Medal in 1967 and the American Anthropological Association Distinguished Service Award in 1983.
The Meaning of Taxonomic Statements; East African Fossil Hominoidea And The Classification Within This Super-Family 1; Quantitative Taxonomy and Human Evolution; Some Considerations in the Formulation of Theories of Human Phylogeny; Age Changes, Sex Differences, and Variability as Factors in the Classification of Primates; The Evaluation of Characteristics of the Skull, Hands, and Feet for Primate Taxonomy; The Classification of Oreopithecus; The Locomotor Functions of Hominids; Behavior and Human Evolution; Man’s Place in the Phylogeny of the Primates as Reflected in Serum Proteins; The Chromosomes of the Hominoidea; Perspectives in Molecular Anthropology; Some Problems in the Analysis and Comparison of Monkey and APE Behavior; A Comparison of the Ecology and Behavior of Monkeys and APES 1; Psychological Definitions of Man; The Taxonomic Evaluation of Fossil Hominids; Genetic Entities in Hominid Evolution
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2007 |
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| Verlagsort | Somerset |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 839 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-202-30935-5 / 0202309355 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-202-30935-4 / 9780202309354 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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