human evolution,theory of the origins of the human species,Homo sapiens.Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings ofpaleontology,anthropology, andgenetics, and involves the process of natural selection (seeDarwinism). Although gaps in the fossil record due to differenti...
Essential Books on Evolution and Human OriginsNeanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, by Svante Paabo (Basic Books). The world's foremost...By ColeTumerRon
resolution and interpretation of human evolution. Early comparisons demonstrated that African apes and humans were more closely related and diverged later than commonly thought. However, it was difficult to determine the branching between humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. By the 1990s, sufficient ...
出版年:2010-9 页数:286 定价:$ 105.09 ISBN:9780521769488 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 内容简介· ··· In this book, Benoit Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cogniti...
Nearly all genetic variants that influence disease risk have human-specific origins; however, the systems they influence have ancient roots that often trace back to evolutionary events long before the origin of humans. Here, we review how advances in our understanding of the genetic architectures of...
EVERY year brings to light evidence which implies a far greater ambiguity for man than that given to him in the book of Genesis. The caves of Mount Carmel, for example, have quite recently been found to contain deposits, fully sixty feet in thickness and laden with fossil bones of man ...
Replacement Model of Human Origins The term theory is used to give a justification or explanation for an idea that has not yet been proven as a fact. In the field of science, there are many theories that scientists, and others, take to be true. The theory of evolution is one of those...
The article comments the controversy about the origin of human beings. School districts have attempted to force teachers to students that the Darwinian, evolutionary explanation for the origin of life is just one of many theories. The author cited that the theory of evolution is the accepted scien...
Lahr, M.M. 1998. “Towards a theory of modern human origins: Geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution.” In Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, vol. 41, pp. 137-176. Laitman, J. T., and J.S. Reidenberg. 1988. “Advances in understanding the relationship between ...
The past two centuries have witnessed an unprecedented rise in human life expectancy. Sustaining longer lives with reduced periods of disability will require an understanding of the underlying mechanisms of ageing, and genetics is a powerful tool for ide