The First Humans

Author : Frederick E. Grine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099800
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The First Humans written by Frederick E. Grine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some issues in human paleontology that seem to be timeless. Most deal with the origin and early evolution of our own genus – something about which we should care. Some of these issues pertain to taxonomy and systematics. How many species of Homo were there in the Pliocene and Pleistocene? How do we identify the earliest members the genus Homo? If there is more than one Plio-Pleistocene species, how do they relate to one another, and where and when did they evolve? Other issues relate to questions about body size, proportions and the functional adaptations of the locomotor skeleton. When did the human postcranial “Bauplan” evolve, and for what reasons? What behaviors (and what behavioral limitations) can be inferred from the postcranial bones that have been attributed to Homo habilis and Homo erectus? Still other issues relate to growth, development and life history strategies, and the biological and archeological evidence for diet and behavior in early Homo. It is often argued that dietary change played an important role in the origin and early evolution of our genus, with stone tools opening up scavenging and hunting opportunities that would have added meat protein to the diet of Homo. Still other issues relate to the environmental and climatic context in which this genus evolved.

Author : Herbert Thomas
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500300565
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The First Humans written by Herbert Thomas and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we? Where did we come from? What makes us human? The whole puzzle of our early life on earth is gradually being pieced together from fragments of bone, skulls and primitive tools dispersed throughout the world. The trail leads back nearly five million years. Here is a history of human evolution that reveals the very latest finds and thinking - discoveries that can help us to understand our past, our present and even future.

Author : Rosen Publishing Group
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
ISBN 13 : 9781477785522
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The First Humans and Early Civilizations written by Rosen Publishing Group and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.

Author : Bo Gräslund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134261349
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Early Humans and Their World written by Bo Gräslund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing modern research on early hominid evolution from the apes six million years ago to the emergence of modern humans, this book is the first to present a synthetic discussion of many aspects of early human life.

Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194051
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cro-Magnon written by Brian Fagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans--not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and technologically inventive people that had yet lived on earth. The prolonged encounter between theCro-Magnons and the archaic Neanderthals, between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago, was one of the defining moments of history. The Neanderthals survived for some 15,000 years in the face of the newcomers, but were finally pushed aside by the Cro-Magnons' vastly superior intellectual abilities and cutting-edge technologies. What do we know about this remarkable takeover? Who were these first modern Europeans and what were they like? How did they manage to thrive in such an extreme environment? And what legacydid they leave behind them after the cold millennia? This is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter of human experience.--From publisher description.

Author : The Diagram Group
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438122411
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Life on Earth written by The Diagram Group and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the earliest humans, including what defines a human, how humans developed over time, what prehistoric humans' daily lives were like, and how scientists have learned about them.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0761446303
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book First Humans 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 first humans.

Author : Nick Merriman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394922577
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Early Humans written by Nick Merriman and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.

Author : Ann Gibbons
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 140007696X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The First Human written by Ann Gibbons and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the fossil of the earliest human ancestor–Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups–one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut–who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale.

Author : Richard Wrangham
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652107
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Catching Fire written by Richard Wrangham and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes". Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. "This notion is surprising, fresh and, in the hands of Richard Wrangham, utterly persuasive ... Big, new ideas do not come along often in evolution these days, but this is one." -Matt Ridley, author of Genome