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By Camilo J. Cela-Conde,Francisco J. Ayala

ISBN-10: 0198739907

ISBN-13: 9780198739906

ISBN-10: 0198739915

ISBN-13: 9780198739913

Human Evolution presents a accomplished review of hominid evolution, synthesising facts and techniques from fields as varied as actual anthropology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, genetics, archaeology, psychology and philosophy.
The booklet begins with chapters on evolution, inhabitants genetics, systematics, and the tools for developing evolutionary timber. those are through a finished evaluate of the fossil background of human evolution because our divergence from the apes. next chapters conceal more moderen info, either fossil and molecular, when it comes to the evolution of contemporary people. a last part describes the evolution of tradition, language, paintings, and morality.
The authors are top specialists in complementary fields of scholarship, actual anthropology and molecular evolution. during the publication they effectively combine their services in evolutionary concept, phylogenetics, genomics, cultural evolution, language, aesthetics and morality to provide a innovative textbook, copiously illustrated and with an intensive and up to date bibliography. it is going to be appropriate for either senior undergraduate and graduate point scholars taking classes on human evolution inside departments of biology, anthropology, psychology and philosophy. The ebook also will entice a extra normal viewers looking a readable, up to date and inclusive remedy of human origins and evolution.

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