9783929439076 - Hominid Evolution (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, 565 pages, b&w illustrations, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.67kg. Missing the front blank endpaper. Interior is clean with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps; faint marks on page edges externally. Boards show gentle cosmetic wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; Primate Models and Early Hominid Lifestyles [Lifestyles and Survival Strategies at the Primate Level; Ape Models of Incipient Hominid Lifestyles: Chimpanzee or Pygmy Chimpanzee (Bonobo)?; Coping with Social Tension in Primate Societies: Strategic Modelling of Early Hominid Lifestyles]; Ways of Life and Survival Strategies in Early Hominids [Biological Equipment, Environment and Survival in the Australopithecine World; Climate Change and Survival Strategies of Early Homo and Paranthropus in the Malawi Rift; Meat-Eating and Carcass Procurement by Hominids at the FLK Zinj 22 Site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): A New Experimental Approach to the Old Hunting vs Scavenging Debate; Chopping Tools as 'Useful Possessions': A Pliocene Tool Behaviour Leading to Bigger Brain Size Selection (and Connected Ability for Culture); Why Cultural Behaviour Became a Part of Early Hominid Adaptation Strategies (On the Causes of the First 'Cultural Revolution']; Human Adaptation Strategies [Adaptive Zone of Homo Erectus from an African Perspective; Dmanisi and the Early Eurasian Dispersal of the Genus Homo; Homo Finds from Bilzingsleben and Weimar-Ehringsdorf; New Thoughts on Neanderthal Behaviour: Evidence from Nasal Morphology; Patterns of Adaptive Strategy in the Upper Palaeolithic and Post-Palaeolithic Populations: Evidence from Central Europe; Competition Ecology: Pleistocene Hominids and the Carnivore Community]; Lifestyle Adaptations in Palaeolithic Humans [Ethology and Population Dynamics: Keystones for Anthropogeneic Extinctions and Hominid Expansion - The Eutrophic Zone, Its Genesis and Implications; Survival and Adaptation of Pleistocene Humans on Islands; Modes of Life in the Palaeolithic: Not Survival but Well-Being; Reproductive Ecology and Early Hominids; Disinhibition of Anti-Cultural Behaviour: A Means of Adaptation in Hominids?; Modern Models of the Past: The Life of the Eipo, Highlands of West-New Guinea]; Cultural Adaptations [Cultural Continuity and Change in Hominid Behaviour in Africa During the Middle to Upper Pleistocene Transition; Bilzingsleben Site: Homo Erectus, His Culture and His Ecosphere; Middle Palaeolithic as Development Stage: Evidence from Technology, Subsistence, Settlement Systems, and Hominid Socio-Ecology; Contrasting Lifestyles and Survival Strategies Between the Gravettian and the Epigravettian in Central & South-Eastern Europe]; Hunting and Subsistence Adaptation Strategies [Dursunlu: A New Lower Pleistocene Faunal and Artifact-Bearing Locality in Southern Anatolia; Problem of Interpreting Hominid Subsistence Strategies at Lower Palaeolithic Sites; Lower Palaeolithic Throwing Spears and Other Wooden Implements from Schöningen, Germany; Hominid Ranging Patterns and Dietary Strategies; Reconstruction of Neandertal Diet Using Bone Collagen Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes; Gathering Fruits as a Way of Food Supply During the Palaeolithic Period; Comments on the Osteological Criteria for Hunting and Scavenging in the Middle Palaeolithic; Jagd- und Rohstoffökonomie im Mittelpaläolithikum Mährens; Behaviour and Survival Strategy in Moravian Early Gravettians: Mammoth Hunters or Scavengers?; Survival Strategies in the Eastern Gravettian; Dietary Shifts and the Origins of the European Upper Palaeolithic; Ideology-Dependent Subsistence in the Aceramic of Cyprus]; Social Survival Strategies [Planning Capacity and Symbolism as Survival Strategies; Female Proto-Symbolic Strategies: Testable Model for Earliest Symbolic Behaviour; Life and Death, Mortuary Practices and Survival Strategies in the Palaeolithic].

Hardcover. 565pp. As new, clean, tight & bright condition.