1st Edition
Human Evolution An Introduction for the Behavioural Sciences
By Graham Richards
Copyright 1987
408 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject. A key theoretical concern which emerges in the book includes the psychological significance of the human evolution... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Nature of the Problem
2. Linnaeus to the Leakeys
3. Methods and Data-Bases
4. Brains and Sex, Meat and Reasons
5. Genes and Culture, Kindness and Speech
6. From Erectus to Sapiens
Appendix A: Principal pre-Modern Hominid Fossils
Appendix B: Development of the Hominid Jaw
Appendix C: Hominid Genealogy – Seventy-Two Possibilities
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Biography
Graham Richards
