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Extinct humans
Tattersall, Ian.
Adult Nonfiction GN281.4 .T39 2000
Tattersall, Ian.
Adult Nonfiction GN281.4 .T39 2000
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| Contents | Page |
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| Preface | p. 8 |
| Chapter 1 - The Path to Human Evolution | p. 13 |
| In the Beginning | |
| In and Out of the Dark Ages | |
| Putting Humans into Evolution and Fossils into Human Evolution | |
| The Evolutionary Synthesis: Exempting Humans from Natural Selection | |
| Defining Homo | |
| Blumenbach's Legacy | |
| Chapter 2 - Evolution Today | p. 43 |
| Chapter 3 - Early Bipeds: African Origins | p. 55 |
| Forever Australopithecus | |
| The New Era | |
| Not Another Australopith! And Another? | |
| The Age of Discovery | |
| The Making of the Hominid | |
| Arboreal Bipeds? | |
| Earlier Ancestors? | |
| What to Do with Australopiths? | |
| Chapter 4 - The Mysterious Homo habilis | p. 105 |
| Olduvai | |
| East Turkana | |
| The Transvaal | |
| Back to Olduvai | |
| Unraveling Homo habilis | |
| The Influence of Climate | |
| Early Toolmakers | |
| Chapter 5 - The Emergence of the Modern Body | p. 125 |
| East Side Story | |
| When East Meets Far East | |
| Another East African Homo erectus? | |
| A Glimpse at the Life History of the Nariokotome Youth | |
| Will the Real Homo erectus Please Stand Up? | |
| Lifestyles | |
| Chapter 6 - Homo ergaster and Homo erectus: The Great Diaspora | p. 147 |
| Java Man | |
| Peking Man | |
| The Cave of Zhoukoudian | |
| New Discoveries | |
| Surprise Dates | |
| Ngandong Revisited | |
| The Invasion of Europe | |
| Multiple Departures? | |
| Chapter 7 - Neanderthals and Human Extinctions | p. 173 |
| The Neanderthals | |
| Neanderthal Anatomy | |
| The Ice Age Environment in Europe and Western Asia | |
| Neanderthal Technology | |
| Neanderthal Lifestyles | |
| Neanderthal Economies | |
| Neanderthal Burial and Symbolic Behaviors | |
| Neanderthal Extinction | |
| Chapter 8 - And Then there Was One | p. 223 |
| Out of Africa | |
| African Eve | |
| The Levant | |
| The First Modern Europeans | |
| Becoming Human | |
| Further Reading | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 252 |
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