Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

Bernard Wood, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution in 1997

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Bernard Wood

页数:144

出版时间:2005-11

价格:USD 11.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780192803603

丛书系列:Very Short Introductions

图书标签:VSI科普进化史生物Oxford阅读进化人类学演化

- The most up-to-date introduction to the subject available, includes Homo floresiensis (nick-named 'the Hobbit')

- Explains where modern humans fit in the Tree of Life

- Connects the fossil evidence with the genetic evidence

- Wood provides an 'insiders view' of paleoanthropology, explaining how fossils are found, analyzed, and why they are interpreted in different ways

- Includes lively sketches of the characters, past and present, in human evolution research

- Explains the functions of geochronology and paleoclimatology

This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it also covers the latest genetic evidence about regional variations in the modern human genome that relate to our evolutionary history. Bernard Wood draws on over thirty years of experience to provide an insider's view of the field and some of the personalities in it, and demonstrates that our understanding of human evolution is critically dependent on advances in related sciences such as paleoclimatology, geochronology, systematics, genetics, and developmental biology.

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原以为是人类文明史，没想到误入考古学和生物进化学说，大量专业术语严重降低趣味度。行外人无法做出评判。。