The Science of Human Evolution : Getting it Right /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Langdon, John H. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction:  The Method of Science -- Case Study 1. The Darwinian Paradigm: An Evolving World View -- Case Study 2. Proving Prehistory: William Pengelly and Scientific Excavation -- Case Study 3. Testing Predictions: Eugene Dubois and the Missing Link -- Case Study 4. Self-Correcting Science: The Piltdown Forgery -- Case Study 5. Checking the Time: Geological Dating at Olduvai Gorge -- Case Study 6. Quantifying Evolution:  Morris Goodman and Molecular Phylogeny -- Case Study 7. Reinterpreting Ramapithecus: Reconciling Fossils and Molecules -- Case Study 8. Taming the Killer Ape: The Science of Taphonomy -- Case Study 9. Reading the Bones (1): Recognizing Bipedalism -- Case Study 10. Reading the Bones (2): Sizing up the Ancestors -- Case Study 11. The Habilis Workbench: Experimental Archaeology -- Case Study 12. Hunting for Predators: The Scavenging Hypothesis -- Case Study 13. Climate Change in the Pliocene: Environment and Human Origins -- Case Study 14. Free Range Homo: Modernizing the Body at Dmanisi -- Case Study 15. Reading the Bones (3): Tracking Life History at Nariokotome -- Case Study 16, Democratizing Homo naledi: A New Model for Fossil Hominin Studies -- Case Study 17. A Curious Isolation: The Hobbits of Flores -- Case Study 18, Neanderthals in the Mirror:  Imagining our Relatives -- Case Study 19, Leaving Africa: Mitochondrial Eve -- Case Study 20. The Neanderthal Problem: Neighbors and Relatives on Mt. Carmel -- Case Study 21. Chasing Smaller Game: The Archaeology of Modernity -- Case Study 22, Strangers in Paradigms: Ancient DNA Reveals Mysterious Populations -- Case Study 23, Is Humanity Sustainable?  Tracking the Source of our Ecological Uniqueness -- Case Study 24, The Unknowable Biped: Questions We Cannot Answer -- Case Study 25, Parsimony and the Aquatic Ape -- Case Study 26. What Science Is: A Cultural and Legal Challenge. 
650 0 |a Evolutionary biology. 
650 0 |a Physical anthropology. 
650 0 |a Animal anatomy. 
650 0 |a History. 
650 0 |a Archaeology. 
650 0 |a Developmental biology. 
650 1 4 |a Evolutionary Biology. 
650 2 4 |a Biological and Physical Anthropology. 
650 2 4 |a Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. 
650 2 4 |a History of Science. 
650 2 4 |a Archaeology. 
650 2 4 |a Developmental Biology. 
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