bokomslag The Evolution of Human Life History

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526 sidor
2006

Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction. Drawing on new evidence from paleoanthropology, they question existing arguments that link humans extended childhood dependency and long post-reproductive lives to brain development, learning, and distinctively human social structures. The volume reviews alternative explanations for the distinctiveness of human life history and incorporates multiple lines of evidence in order to test them.

Författare: Kristen Hawkes, Nancy Barrickman, Meredith L Bastian, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Barry Bogin
Format: Pocket/Paperback
ISBN: 9781930618725
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 526
Utgivningsdatum: 2006-08-01
Förlag: School of American Research Press,U.S.