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Understanding Human Evolution 5/e
Jeffrey K. McKee
Frank E. Poirier Emeritus
W. Scott McGraw
Published September 2004 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 2005, 432 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-13-111390-9
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$62.67
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Features

  • NEW - Updated with the latest fossil discoveries, new hypotheses, and new interpretive tools–e.g. Genetic analyses.

    • Provides students with the latest scientific discoveries, hypotheses, and methodological innovations.

  • NEW - Reorganized to draw students into the subject matter.

    • Provides students with an overview of key features of human evolution and a context for the background information in subsequent chapters.

  • NEW - Technologies in geology, chemistry, and molecular genetics–e.g., Genetic evidence that reveals the closeness of human-ape relationship; new dating techniques that provide insights into the evolutional relationships of our primate ancestors.
  • Balanced, unbiased perspective throughout–Many sides of an argument are provided to allow students to reach their own opinions and pursue the subject further.

    • Helps students visualize the past and understand varied interpretations of our origins in a nontechnical manner.

  • Numerous tables–Help to codify the complexities of hominin fossil record.

    • Provides students with a systematic comprehension of fossil data.

  • Key terms and concepts defined in the text–Highlighted again in a glossary.

    • Provides students with excellent reinforcement and review of important terms and concepts.

  • Primate fossil record–Presented as an evolutional theater viewed in light of what fossils can reveal about the populations they represent.

    • Provides students with a broad evolutionary view that highlights what the skeletal remains demonstrate in terms of anatomical, behavioral, and social organization information.

  • Chapter introductions and summaries.

    • Provide students with clear overviews and reviews to aid comprehension and retention.

  • Paleoecological considerations discussion expanded.

    • Provides students with an emphasis on the context of human evolution.



Table of Contents



 1. Trends in Human Evolution.


 2. Fossils, Fossilization, and Dating Methods.


 3. Determining Evolutionary Relationships.


 4. Our Place in the Animal Kingdom.


 5. Reconstructing Ancient Human Behavior and Social Organizations: Use of the Comparative Approach.


 6. Early Primate Evolution.


 7. Basal Anthropoids, The Evolution of Monkeys, and the Transition to Apes.


 8. The Early Hominins.


 9. The Hominin Divergence.


10. The Spread of Homo Beyond Africa.


11. Transitions to Archaic Homo sapiens.


12. Neandertals and Their Immediate Predecessors.


13. The Appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens.


14. Conclusion?


Glossary.


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