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- Human evolution / by Huddle, Rusty,editor.; Gale (Firm);
- Includes bibliographical references and index.chapter 1. Evidence for evolution and a general overview -- chapter 2. Background and beginnings of human evolution -- chapter 3. Tools, hands, and heads in the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs -- chapter 4. The emergence of Homo sapiens.This volume provides a general overview of evolution, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and an introduction to the relevant fossil record. It also explores relevant theories and refinements in human traits and culture, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a modern species.Description based on print version record.
- Subjects: Human evolution.;
- On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/8382/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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- The human odyssey : four million years of human evolution / by Tattersall, Ian.; American Museum of Natural History.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.In the beginning -- Humans are vertebrates -- Humans are mammals -- Primate evolution -- Human evolution -- The earliest human relatives -- The mystery of Olduvai Gorge: "handy man" -- The great leap forward -- Toward modern humans -- The Neanderthals -- The origin of modern humans -- The human spirit.
- Subjects: Human evolution.;
- © c1993., Prentice Hall General Reference,
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- Diseases and human evolution / by Barnes, Ethne.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-467) and index.Introduction -- The war between microbes and men -- Early humans and their diseases -- The seeds of change -- Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars -- Invitation to a minute worm : the schistosomes -- Braving new worlds : invisible enemies of settlers -- Domesticated animals and disease -- Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis -- The moral disease : leprosy -- The coming of civilization -- Syphilis : the great change artist -- Memories of smallpox -- Pestilence, plague, and rats -- Of lice and men : plus ticks, mites, and chiggers -- Marching to a new world order : European expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- Easy route to fame and gripe : cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs -- Transoceanic hitchhikers : yellow fever and its Dengue cousin -- Food for thought : the mystery diseases -- The globalization of influenza -- Diseases of modern civilization -- The new viral wars and sleeping dragons -- Back to the future.
- Subjects: Epidemiology.; Medical anthropology.;
- © [2006], University of New Mexico Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Race? : debunking a scientific myth / by Tattersall, Ian.; DeSalle, Rob.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index.Race in Western scientific history -- Species, patterns, and evolution -- Human evolution and dispersal -- Is 'race' a biological problem? -- Race in ancestry, forensics, and disease.The authors explain what human races are and are not, and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race. To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among 'races' remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint. Differences among human populations that people intuitively view as 'racial' are not only superficial but are also of astonishingly recent origin. In this book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are- and are not- and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity. They explain that the relative isolation of local populations of the newly evolved human species during the last Ice Age- when Homo sapiens was spreading across the world from an African point of origin- has now begun to reverse itself, as differentiated human populations come back into contact and interbreed. Indeed, the authors suggest that all of the variety seen outside of Africa seems to have both accumulated and started reintegrating within only the last 50,000 or 60,000 years- the blink of an eye, from an evolutionary perspective. The overarching message of this book is that scientifically speaking, there is nothing special about racial variation within the human species. These distinctions result from the working of entirely mundane evolutionary processes, such as those encountered in other organisms. -- Publisher description
- Subjects: Race.; Human evolution.;
- © 2011., Texas A&M University Press,
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- Race and human evolution / by Wolpoff, Milford H.; Caspari, Rachel,1957-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-437) and index.Multiregional evolution and Eve: science and politics -- A first lesson in the politics of paleoanthropology -- Polygenism, racism, and the rise of anthropology -- Slavery and its reverberations -- Polygenism after Darwin -- The last stand -- The straw man -- Functional morphology, orthogensis, and the Dubois Syndrome -- Center and edge -- Multiregional evolution -- Modern humans, modern races?
- Subjects: Human evolution; Fossil hominids.; Racism; Racism in anthropology; Multiregional human evolution.;
- © c1997., Simon & Schuster,
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- The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE / by Tattersall, Ian.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-132) and index.Evolutionary processes -- Fossils and ancient artifacts -- On their own two feet -- Emergence of the genus homo -- Getting brainier -- Modern human origins -- Settled life.
- Subjects: Human evolution.; Fossil hominids.;
- © 2008., Oxford University Press,
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- The first human : the race to discover our earliest ancestors / by Gibbons, Ann.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-291) and index.Map: the cradle of humanity -- "First Human" fossil finds by year -- Time line: the human family -- The fossil hunters -- African trailblazers -- Continental divide -- The early ancestor -- Drawing bloodlines -- Lucy, the late ancestor -- Defining humans -- Banishment -- The lady of the lake -- A view from afar -- The root ape -- West side story -- Turf wars -- Toeing the line -- Millennium man -- Toumaï -- Bones of contention -- Habitat for humanity."In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind? Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the 'missing link' - the fossil of the earliest human ancestor - Gibbons ventures to Africa, where she encounters a fascinating array of fossil hunters: Tim White, the irreverent Californian who discovered the partial skeleton of a primate that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia; French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who uncovers a skull in Chad that could date the beginnings of humankind to seven million years ago; and two other groups - one led by zoologist Meave Leakey, the other by British geologist Martin Pickford and his French paleontologist partner, Brigitte Senut - who enter the race with landmark discoveries of their own. Through scrupulous research and vivid first-person reporting, The First Human reveals the perils and the promises of fossil hunting on a grand competitive scale."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects: Fossil hominids.; Human evolution.;
- © 2007, ©2006., Anchor Books,
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- The origin of humankind / by Leakey, Richard E.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index.
- Subjects: Human evolution; Prehistoric peoples.;
- © c1994., BasicBooks,
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- The search for Eve / by Brown, Michael Harold,1952-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-348) and index.
- Subjects: Human evolution.; Genetic psychology.;
- © c1990., Harper & Row,
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- It takes a genome : how a clash between our genes and modern life is making us sick / by Gibson, Greg.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-173) and index.The adolescent genome -- Breast cancer's broken genes -- Not so thrifty diabetes genes -- Unhealthy hygiene -- Genetic AIDS -- Generating depression -- The Alzheimer's generation -- Genetic normality.
- Subjects: Medical genetics.; Human evolution.;
- © c2009., Pearson Education,
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