Human evolution
Subtitle: trails from the past
By: Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco J. Ayala.
Contributors: Ayala, Francisco José, 1934-
Series: Oxford biology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780198567790; 9780198567806
Subjects: Fossil hominids; Paleoanthropology; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal; title: Evolution, genetics, and systematics; title: The evolution of hominoids; title: The hominin lineage; title: Miocene and Pliocene genera and species; title: Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley; title: The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo; title: The radiation of homo; title: Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade; title: The late-Pleistocene transition; title: The uniqueness of being human.