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Author: H. J. Deacon
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780761990864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecialists in Stone Age archaeology in South Africa present the results of nearly 150 years of research that follows the development of humans from their early beginnings to the late 19th century. They offer evidence that the roots of South African society stretch back into the Stone Age. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Sally C. Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1107074037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive account of hominin fossil sites across Africa, including the environmental and ecological evidence central to our understanding of human evolution.
Author: Sally C. Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 1107019958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9004500227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente.
Author: H. J. Deacon
Publisher: New Africa Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780864864178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Stone Age is now beginning to be recognised as vital in establishing who we are and where we have come from. This period has long been neglected.
Author: John F. Hoffecker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0231543743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a “major transition” in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.
Author: Lance Van Sittert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004154191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in "Canis Africanis," each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, and social rebellion through resisting the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the 'animal turn' in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect, demonstrating how different human groups construct a range of identities for themselves (and for others) in terms of animals. So instead of conceiving of animals as merely constituents of ecological or agricultural systems, they can be comprehended through their role in human cultures.
Author: Laura Garwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0226284166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
Author: Christa Kuljian
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781431424252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins - in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics - over the past century. The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the hope that they would provide clues to human evolution. Kuljian sheds light on how, during apartheid, the concept of racial classification mirrored the way in which many scientists thought about race and human evolution.
Author: Pamela R. Willoughby
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780759101197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating, detailed study of the origins of modern humans. Includes material from Willoughby's own research in Tanzania.
