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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution is a wide-ranging introduction to the human species that places modern humans in evolutionary perspective. Over seventy scholars world-wide have worked on the encyclopedia, covering a range of subjects from genetics, primatology and fossil origins to human biology and ecology, brain function and behaviour, demography and disease. Emphasis is placed throughout on the biological diversity of modern people and the increasing convergence of the fossil and genetic evidence for human evolution that has emerged. Due to the need to look at humankind in the context of our closest relatives, the encyclopedia also pays particular attention to the evolution and ecology of other living primates - lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes. It deals with the evolution and ecology of human society, as reconstructed from archaeological remains, and from studies of tribal peoples and living primates today. It considers the biology of uniquely human abilities such as language and upright walking, and it reviews the biological future of humankind in the face of modern challenges.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
• Author: Steve Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 524
• EAN: 9780521467865
• ISBN: 0521467861
• ID: 04092031
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1294 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 210 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 1994

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