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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      28 September 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511542367
      9780521451604
      9780521123853
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542367
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.685kg, 366 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 368 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (26)
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (26)
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    Human Paleobiology provides a unifying framework for the study of human populations, both past and present, to a range of changing environments. It integrates evidence from studies of human adaptability, comparative primatology, and molecular genetics to document consistent measures of genetic distance between subspecies, species and other taxonomic groupings. These findings support the interpretation of the biology of humans in terms of a smaller number of populations characterised by higher levels of genetic continuity than previously hypothesised. Using this as a basis, Robert Eckhardt then goes on to analyse problems in human paleobiology including phenotypic differentiation, patterns of species range expansion and phyletic succession in terms of the patterns and processes still observable in extant populations. This book will be a challenging and stimulating read for students and researchers interested in human paleobiology or evolutionary anthropology.

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    Review of the hardback:‘… in this seminal text, he certainly succeeds in establishing the framework by which biological anthropologists, and particularly palaeoanthropologists, can gain more useful insights from our fossilised past.’

    Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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