The Wrong Ape For Early Human Origins

Author : M. Kay Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666923885
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrong Ape for Early Human Origins written by M. Kay Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wrong Ape for Early Human Origins highlights the pervasive impact of the chimpanzee referential model on paleoanthropological theory. This work suggests the need to re-imagine the last common ancestor of chimps and humans based on a more generalized Miocene ape platform and the reliance of early hominins on epigenesis and creative niche construction.

Author : David R. Begun
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182809
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Planet of the Apes written by David R. Begun and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing new story of human origins Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world’s leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape species. Begun draws on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record, as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions, to offer a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans. He tells the story of how one of the earliest members of our evolutionary group evolved from lemur-like monkeys in the primeval forests of Africa. Begun then vividly describes how, over the next ten million years, these hominoids expanded into Europe and Asia and evolved climbing and hanging adaptations, longer maturation times, and larger brains. As the climate deteriorated in Europe, these apes either died out or migrated south, reinvading the African continent and giving rise to the lineages of African great apes, and, ultimately, humans. Presenting startling new insights, The Real Planet of the Apes fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins.

Author : Peter Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316412164
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ape's View of Human Evolution written by Peter Andrews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology, this book provides a new perspective on human evolution. What can fossil apes tell us about the origins of human evolution? Did the last common ancestor of apes and humans live in trees or on the ground? What did it eat, and how did it survive in a world full of large predators? Did it look anything like living apes? Andrews addresses these questions and more to reconstruct the common ancestor and its habitat. Synthesising thirty-five years of work on both ancient environments and fossil and modern ape anatomy, this book provides unique new insights into the evolutionary processes that led to the origins of the human lineage.

Author : John Gribbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Chimpanzee written by John Gribbin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, the authors published The Monkey Puzzle which argued that humans are 100per cent ape, a sibling species to chimps and gorillas. Dismissed at the time as armchair theorists, research has vindicated them. This revised edition of the earlier book brings to light subsequent research.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0761446281
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a step back in time to explore the origin of humans.

Author : New Scientist
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473629810
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Origins written by New Scientist and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of the universe and travelled into space. Yet just 7 million years ago, we were just another species of great ape making a quiet living in the forests of East Africa. We do not know exactly what this ancestor was like, but it was no more likely than a chimpanzee or gorilla to sail across the ocean, write a symphony, invent a steam engine or ponder the meaning of existence. How did we get from there to here? Human Origins recounts the most astonishing evolutionary tale ever told. Discover how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation - perhaps the only one of its kind in the universe. Meet your long-lost ancestors, the other humans who once shared the planet with us, and learn where the story might end. ABOUT THE SERIES New Scientist Instant Expert books are definitive and accessible entry points to the most important subjects in science; subjects that challenge, attract debate, invite controversy and engage the most enquiring minds. Designed for curious readers who want to know how things work and why, the Instant Expert series explores the topics that really matter and their impact on individuals, society, and the planet, translating the scientific complexities around us into language that's open to everyone, and putting new ideas and discoveries into perspective and context.

Author : John R. Durant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Origins written by John R. Durant and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, studies in several overlapping fields have enlarged our understanding of human origins. This book brings together essays by leading archaeologists, anthropologists, biologists, and paleontologists to provide a vivid portrait of what is currently known about the evolution of our species. The contributors include the Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins, the molecular biologist Alec Jeffreys, and Richard Leakey, Director of the National Museum of Kenya. Among the topics discussed are the lifestyle of our early ancestors, the evolution of human intelligence, the nature and significance of human purpose. Human Origins is an accessible and authoritative guide to contemporary scientific views of human evolution, providing a detailed account of the emergence of hominids from the world of apes.

Author : Russell L. Ciochon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351496689
Total Pages : 1091 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primate Evolution and Human Origins written by Russell L. Ciochon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 1091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the human line. Designed for freshmen-to-graduate students in anthropology, paleontology, and biology, the book is a unique collection of classic papers, culled from the past 20 years of research. It is also an important reference for academicians and researchers, as it covers the entire scope of primate and human evolution (with an emphasis on the fossil record). A comprehensive bibliography cites over 2000 significant articles not found in the main text.

Author : Russell Ciochon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468488546
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry written by Russell Ciochon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rod Caird
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ape Man written by Rod Caird and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the story of our evolution, and of the people who have devoted their lives to discovering the truth about our origins.