Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory

Second Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8153-1696-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 848 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 2233 g

Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher.the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche.essential to academic libraries.important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delson, Eric

Tattersall, Ian

Couvering, John van

Brooks, Alison S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Frühmenschen, Hominiden
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Amino-acid dating * Australopithecus * Baring Basin/Tugen Hills * Bone Biology * Calcium-41 dating * Catarrhini * Colobinae * Complex societies * Europe * Functional morphology * Homo rudolfensis * Jewelry * Late Paleolithic * Lemuriformes * Locomotion * Natron-Eyasi Basin * Non-Darwinian evolution * Paleolithic image * Pilgrim, Guy Ellock * Quantitative methods * Sea level change * Sexual dimorphism * Taphonomy * Teeth * Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre * Turkana Basin * Visual predation hypothesis * Zhoukoudian

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Delson is a Research Associate in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
Ian Tattersall is Curator of the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Anthropology.
John A. Van Couvering is Editor of the American Museum of Natural History's Micropaleonotlogy Press.
Alison S. Brooks is a member of the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.