Primate and Human Evolution
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- Author: Susan Cachel, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: May 2006
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521829427
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Primate and Human Evolution provides a synthesis of the evolution and adaptive significance of human anatomical, physiological and behavioral traits. Using paleontology and modern human variation and biology, it compares hominid traits to those of other catarrhine primates both living and extinct, presenting a new hominization model that does not depend solely on global climate change, but on predictable trends observed in catarrhines. Dealing with the origins of hominid tool use and tool manufacture, it compares tool behavior in other animals and incorporates information from the earliest archaeological record. Examining the use of non-human primates and other mammals in modeling the origins of early human social behavior, Susan Cachel argues that human intelligence does not arise from complex social interactions, but from attentiveness to the natural world. This book will be a rich source of inspiration for all those interested in the evolution of all primates, including ourselves.
Read more- Presents new model of human origins that does not depend solely on global climatic change
- Deals with origins of tool use and manufacture, and argues that human intelligence is based on attentiveness to the natural world and the ability to predict and manipulate events in the non-social world
- Provides a review of changing ideas about human evolution over the past 150 years using both fossil and genetic evidence
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'In sum, Cachel's volume has a lot to say on a wide variety of topics. It is a well-written volume with a different voice concerning the hominization process. It tries mightily to bend data and principles, based on primates, to understand the process of human evolution... [it] is a worthwhile purchase, which allows each of us to reconsider our own views covering these many and varied topics.' Daniel L Gebo, American Journal of Human Biology
See more reviews'The range and breadth of topics covered in this lengthy book are undeniably impressive, and Cachel certainly dares to be different. There are forays into artificial intelligence, speciation, primates as models (and non-models), neuroanatomy, the origins of sociality, the evolutionary implications of body size, the possible impact of diet on sexual dimorphism, taphonomy, bipedalism, Hox genes, tool use, technology, … the list goes on. And all interspersed with condensed histories of primatology and palaeoanthropology. … wide-ranging and thought-provoking …' PaleoAnthropology
'Primate and Human Evolution contains great food for thought, but great thought is only the first and easiest step toward great science. As many of our eager undergraduate majors enter anthropology as unintentional chimpocentrics because of their exposure to primatology in media and popular culture, Primate and Human Evolution will help students take that first step.' International Journal of Primatology
' … a provocative, refreshingly nonconfrontational, structured set of musings on hominin evolution …' American Journal of Physical Anthropology
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- Date Published: May 2006
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521829427
- length: 488 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 155 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.82kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. A brief history of primatology and human evolution
3. The catarrhine fossil record
4. Primate speciation and exstinction
5. Anatomical primatology
6. Captive studies of non-human primates
7. What can non-human primate anatomy, physiology, and development reveal about human evolution?
8. Natural history intelligence and human evolution
9. Why be social? - the advantages and disadvantages of social life
10. Evolution and behaviour
11. The implications of body size for evolutionary ecology
12. The nature of the fossil record
13. The bipedal breakthrough
14. The hominid radiation
15. Modelling human evolution
16. Archaeological evidence and models of human evolution
17. What does evolutionary anthropology reveal about human evolution?
18. Final thoughts on primate and human evolution.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Introduction to Human Evolution
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