The Science of Human Evolution : Getting it Right /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.