Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521822726 ISBN 13 : 9780521822725

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

It is generally accepted that the earliest human ancestors grew more like apes than like humans today. If they did so, and we are now different, when, how and why did our modern growth patterns evolve? This book focuses on species within the genus Homo to investigate the evolutionary origins of characteristic human patterns and rates of craniofacial and postcranial growth and development, and to explore unique ontogenetic patterns within each fossil species. Experts examine growth patterns found within available Plio-Pleistocene hominid samples, and analyse variation in ontogenetic patterns and rates of development in recent modern humans in order to provide a comparative context for fossil hominid studies. Presenting studies of some of the newer juvenile fossil specimens and information on Homo antecessor, this book will provide a rich data source with which anthropologists and evolutionary biologists can address the questions posed above.

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À propos de l?auteur

JENNIFER L. THOMPSON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. GAIL E. KROVITZ is Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. ANDREW J. NELSON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Western Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521822726
• ISBN 13: 9780521822725
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 470
• Éditeur: Thompson J. L., Krovitz G. E., Nelson A. J.
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