The science of human evolution : getting it right /: getting it right. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By John H. Langdon.
• Authors: Langdon, John H (John Howard)
• Contents: Introduction: The Method of Science -- Case Study 1. The Darwinian Paradigm: An Evolving World View -- Case Study 2. Proving Prehistory: William Pengelly and Scientific Excavation -- Case Study 3. Testing Predictions: Eugene Dubois and the Missing Link -- Case Study 4. Self-Correcting Science: The Piltdown Forgery -- Case Study 5. Checking the Time: Geological Dating at Olduvai Gorge -- Case Study 6. Quantifying Evolution: Morris Goodman and Molecular Phylogeny -- Case Study 7. Reinterpreting Ramapithecus: Reconciling Fossils and Molecules -- Case Study 8. Taming the Killer Ape: The Science of Taphonomy -- Case Study 9. Reading the Bones (1): Recognizing Bipedalism -- Case Study 10. Reading the Bones (2): Sizing up the Ancestors -- Case Study 11. The Habilis Workbench: Experimental Archaeology -- Case Study 12. Hunting for Predators: The Scavenging Hypothesis -- Case Study 13. Climate Change in the Pliocene: Environment and Human Origins -- Case Study 14. Free Range Homo: Modernizing the Body at Dmanisi -- Case Study 15. Reading the Bones (3): Tracking Life History at Nariokotome -- Case Study 16, Democratizing Homo naledi: A New Model for Fossil Hominin Studies -- Case Study 17. A Curious Isolation: The Hobbits of Flores -- Case Study 18, Neanderthals in the Mirror: Imagining our Relatives -- Case Study 19, Leaving Africa: Mitochondrial Eve -- Case Study 20. The Neanderthal Problem: Neighbors and Relatives on Mt. Carmel -- Case Study 21. Chasing Smaller Game: The Archaeology of Modernity -- Case Study 22, Strangers in Paradigms: Ancient DNA Reveals Mysterious Populations -- Case Study 23, Is Humanity Sustainable? Tracking the Source of our Ecological Uniqueness -- Case Study 24, The Unknowable Biped: Questions We Cannot Answer -- Case Study 25, Parsimony and the Aquatic Ape -- Case Study 26. What Science Is: A Cultural and Legal Challenge.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 220 pages 48 illustrations, 43 illustrations in color)
• Subjects: 576.8; Life sciences; Human evolution; Human beings -- Origin; History; Developmental biology; Evolution (Biology); Anatomy; Physical anthropology; Archaeology; Anatomy; Archaeology; Developmental biology; Evolution (Biology); History; Human beings -- Origin; Human evolution; Life sciences; Physical anthropology; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Physical; Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General; Science -- History; Social Science -- Archaeology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Developmental Biology; Anthropology; Zoology & animal sciences; History of science; Archaeology; Developmental biology; Evolution (Biology); Morphology (Animals); Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Evolution; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319415857; 3319415859
• Related ISBNs: 3319415840; 9783319415840
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.