Understanding climate's influence on human evolution

"The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Hom...

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Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press 2010.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Existing Understanding of the Environmental Context for Hominin Evolution""; ""3 The Research Vision Priority Research Themes""; ""4 Implementing an International Scientific Program for Climate and Human Evolution Research""; ""5 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee""; ""Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations""