Human Evolution: An Introduction To Man's Adaptations

Campbell, Bernard G.

ISBN 10: 0435621556 / ISBN 13: 9780435621551

Published by Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. Usa, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Evolution: An Introduction To Man's Adaptations
• Publisher: Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. Usa
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435621556
• ISBN 13: 9780435621551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 950 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science - Computers - Technology

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Synopsis

In this new fourth edition, Campbell has revised and updated his classic introduction to the field. Human Evolution synthesizes the major findings of modern research and theory and presents a complete and integrated account of the evolution of human beings. New developments in microbiology and recent fossil records are incorporated into the enormous range of this volume, with the resulting text as lucid and comprehensive as earlier editions. The fourth edition retains the thematic structure and organization of the third, with its cogent treatment of human variability and speciation, primate locomotion, and nonverbal communication and the evolution of language, supported by more than 150 detailed illustrations and an expanded and updated glossary and bibliography. As in prior editions, the book treats evolution as a concomitant development of the main behavioral and functional complexes of the genus Homo– among them motor control and locomotion, mastication and digestion, the senses and reproduction. It analyzes each complex in terms of its changing function, and continually stresses how the separate complexes evolve interdependently over the long course of the human journey. All these aspects are placed within the context of contemporary evolutionary and genetic theory, analyses of the varied extensions of the fossil record, and contemporary primatology and comparative morphology. The result is a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses, one that will also serve as required reading for anthropologists, biologists, and nonspecialists with an interest in human evolution.

About the Author

Bernard G. Campbell was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Weybridge, England, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1957, and has been a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge and Harvard universities. Among his many contributions to the field of anthropology are Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Adaptations andSexual Selection and the Descent of Man.