Basics in Human Evolution 1st Edition by Michael P Muehlenbein ISBN 978-0128026939 0128026939

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ISBN 10: 0128026939 

ISBN 13: 978-0128026939  

Author: Michael P Muehlenbein  

Basics in Human Evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine. The book is written for a non-expert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to numerous readers across the interdisciplinary field.
From evolutionary theory, to cultural evolution, this book fills gaps in the readers’ knowledge from various backgrounds and introduces them to thought leaders in human evolution research.

– Offers comprehensive coverage of the wide ranging field of human evolution
– Written for a non-expert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to numerous readers across the interdisciplinary field
– Provides expertise from leading minds in the field
– Allows the reader the ability to gain exposure to various topics in one publication

Table of contents: 

Part I. Positioning Human Evolution
Introduction
Chapter 1. Basic Evolutionary Theory
Chapter 2. Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design

Part II. Primates
Introduction
Chapter 3. Primate Evolution
Chapter 4. Comparative Anatomy of Primates
Chapter 5. Primate Behavior
Chapter 6. Primate Models for Human Evolution

Part III. Hominins
Introduction
Chapter 7. Early Hominin Ecology
Chapter 8. Bipedalism
Chapter 9. Early Hominins
Chapter 10. Australopithecines
Chapter 11. Early Pleistocene Homo
Chapter 12. Archaic Homo
Chapter 13. Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens
Chapter 14. Evolution of Tool Use

Part IV. Genetics and Biology
Introduction
Chapter 15. Contemporary Human Genetic Variation
Chapter 16. Human Population Movements: A Genetic Perspective
Chapter 17. Brain Evolution
Chapter 18. Physiological Adaptations to Environmental Stressors
Chapter 19. Evolution of Skin Color
Chapter 20. Human Growth and Development
Chapter 21. Human Reproductive Ecology
Chapter 22. Human Senescence

Part V. Lifeways
Introduction
Chapter 23. Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 24. Pastoralism
Chapter 25. Agriculturalism

Part VI. Health
Introduction
Chapter 26. Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease
Chapter 27. Modernization and Disease
Chapter 28. Modern Human Diet
Chapter 29. Diversity and Origins of Human Infectious Diseases
Chapter 30. Coevolution of Humans and Pathogens
Chapter 31. Paleopathology

Part VII. Behavior and Culture
Introduction
Chapter 32. Evolutionary Biology of Human Stress
Chapter 33. Aggression, Affiliation, and Parenting
Chapter 34. Human Mating Systems
Chapter 35. Evolution of Cognition
Chapter 36. Evolution of Language
Chapter 37. Evolution of Moral Systems
Chapter 38. Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 39. Evolution of Culture

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