The evolution of human life history / edited by Kristen Hawkes and Richard Paine.
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TextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublisher: Santa Fe : School of American Research ; [2006]Publisher: Oxford : James Currey, 2006Edition: first editionDescription: xiii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1930618727 (pa : alk. paper)
- 9781930618725 (pa : alk. paper)
- 599.938 22 E
- GN281 .E8926 2006
Contents:
Summary: Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction. Drawing on new evidence from paleoanthropology, they question existing arguments that link humans' extended childhood dependency and long "post-reproductive" lives to brain development, learning, and distinctively human social structures. The volume reviews alternative explanations for the distinctiveness of human life history and incorporates multiple lines of evidence in order to test them.
Introduction / The derived features of human life history / Life history theory and human evolution : a chronicle of ideas and findings / Slow life histories and human evolution / Primate life histories and the role of brains / Lactation, complementary feeding, and human life history / Modern human life history : the evolution of human childhood and fertility / Contemporary hunter-gatherers and human life history evolution / The osteological evidence for human longevity in the recent past / Paleodemographic data and why understanding Holocene demography is essential to understanding human life history evolution in the Pleistocene / The evolution of modern human life history : a paleontological perspective /
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-494) and index.
Introduction / The derived features of human life history / Life history theory and human evolution : a chronicle of ideas and findings / Slow life histories and human evolution / Primate life histories and the role of brains / Lactation, complementary feeding, and human life history / Modern human life history : the evolution of human childhood and fertility / Contemporary hunter-gatherers and human life history evolution / The osteological evidence for human longevity in the recent past / Paleodemographic data and why understanding Holocene demography is essential to understanding human life history evolution in the Pleistocene / The evolution of modern human life history : a paleontological perspective /
Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction. Drawing on new evidence from paleoanthropology, they question existing arguments that link humans' extended childhood dependency and long "post-reproductive" lives to brain development, learning, and distinctively human social structures. The volume reviews alternative explanations for the distinctiveness of human life history and incorporates multiple lines of evidence in order to test them.
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