Human evolution trails from the past /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cela Conde, Camilo José
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Ayala, Francisco José, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford biology.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal
  • Evolution, genetics, and systematics
  • The evolution of hominoids
  • The hominin lineage
  • Miocene and Pliocene genera and species
  • Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley
  • The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo
  • The radiation of homo
  • Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade
  • The late-Pleistocene transition
  • The uniqueness of being human.