Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory

Second Edition

Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering, Alison S. Brooks (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

802 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-1696-1 (ISBN)

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Now widely recognised as a standard in the field, this book provides the most complete context possible for understanding the 65-million-year story of humankind's origins.

Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB

Eric Delson is a Research Associate in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Ian Tattersall is Curator of the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Anthropology. John A. Van Couvering is Editor of the American Museum of Natural History's Micropaleonotlogy Press. Alison S. Brooks is a member of the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Amino-acid dating * Australopithecus * Baring Basin/Tugen Hills * Bone Biology * Calcium-41 dating * Catarrhini * Colobinae * Complex societies * Europe * Functional morphology * Homo rudolfensis * Jewelry * Late Paleolithic * Lemuriformes * Locomotion * Natron-Eyasi Basin * Non-Darwinian evolution * Paleolithic image * Pilgrim, Guy Ellock * Quantitative methods * Sea level change * Sexual dimorphism * Taphonomy * Teeth * Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre * Turkana Basin * Visual predation hypothesis * Zhoukoudian

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.1.2000
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 280 mm
Gewicht	2180 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8153-1696-8 / 0815316968
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-1696-1 / 9780815316961
Zustand	Neuware