The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins [1st ed.] 0226439623, 9780226439624

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Table of contents :
Illustrations vii
Preface xvii

1 The Geologic Time Frame 1
2 Primate Evolution: Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene 36
3 The Australopithecines and Homo habilis 100
4 Homo erectus 183
5 Early Homo sapiens 224
6 The Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries 263
7 Anatomically Modern Humans 344
8 Synopsis: A Partly Conjectural Outline of Human Evolution 399

Appendixes
1 Classification and Nomenclature 411
2 Flaked Stone Artifact Technology and Typology 418

References 428
Author Index 493
Site Index 501
Subject Index 509

The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins [1st ed.]
 0226439623,  9780226439624

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