{"product_id":"humans-before-humanity-isbn-9780631205289","title":"Humans Before Humanity","description":"This book recreates the lost world of the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before, and in some cases after, the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago.  Preface. \u003cp\u003e1. A Question of Evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Why Darwinism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. What are Human Beings?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. When did we become Human?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Was Human Evolution Progressive?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Why Africa?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Is Human Evolution Adaptive?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Why are Humans such an Evolutionary Rarity?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. How do we Explain the Evolution of Humans?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Does Human Evolution Matter? A Tabular Guide to the Naming and Discovery of Hominid Species and Subspecies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Foley offers clear and often original answers to crucial questions. A number of conventional ideas are usefully broken and the result is really fascinating. Anyone interested in evolution must read this book.\" \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The excellence of the writing allows the author to deal with complex topics which many of his academic colleagues continue to render incomprehensible. It is written with a style and clarity that are exceptional. It would make an excellent basis for a graduate seminar programme.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Foley\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Duckworth Laboratory and a lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College. His other books include \u003ci\u003eAnother Unique Species, Hominid Evolution and Community Ecology,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eComparative Socioecology\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor with V. Standen). In addition he has published numerous papers in scientific journals on human evolution and palaeoecology, and contributed to radio and television programmes on evolution.  This book recreates the lost world of the hominid species that lived and flourished for around one million years before, and in some cases after, the evolution of modern humans some 200,000 years ago. It also investigates how, when, where and why the modern human species appeared and in due course became dominant. These are the subjects of as much heated controversy among as they are of considerable interest to anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists and numerous others. \u003cp\u003eMaking use of a wide range of evidence the book considers issues in evolutionary archaeology such as how far can the early australopithecines, parathropines, \u003ci\u003eHomo erectus\u003c\/i\u003e, and the neanderthals be seen as populations on the way to being human, or as distinct, unique species? How far can these species be said to have cultural characteristics and what can be said of their social organization, group structures and adaptive strategies? How do these compare with ape communities then and now, and with those of the earliest modern humans? And do those behavioural comparisons provide a key to hominid evolution? Answering these questions leads the author not only toward a rational account of modern human origins, but toward an explanation of the origins and evolutionary role of cognition, communication and language - of the knowledge that gives our species its name.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in non-technical language, \u003ci\u003eHumans Before Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e may be expected to have a significant scientific impact and to be of very wide interest indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe paperback edition contains a guide to further reading by chapter, which also outlines current developments in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989391589605,"sku":"NP9780631205289","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631205289.jpg?v=1761783929","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/humans-before-humanity-isbn-9780631205289","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}