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UNINA9910783077703321 |
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Autore |
Eckhardt Robert B. |
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Titolo |
Human Paleobiology / / Robert B. Eckhardt [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
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1-107-11218-4 |
1-280-41672-6 |
0-511-17387-3 |
0-511-03943-3 |
0-511-15313-9 |
0-511-30337-8 |
0-511-54236-4 |
0-511-05279-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; ; 26 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physical anthropology |
Paleobiology |
Human evolution |
Fossil hominids |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-343) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Paleobiology : present perspectives on the past -- Constancy and change : taxonomic uncertainty in a probabilistic world -- A century of fossils -- About a century of theory -- Human adaptability present and past -- Primate patterns of diversity and adaptation -- Hominid phylogeny : morphological and molecular measures of diversity -- Plio-Pleistocene hominids : the paleobiology of fragmented populations -- Character state velocity in the emergence of more advanced hominids -- The paleobiology of widely dispersed hominids -- Paleobiological perspectives on modern human origins -- A future for the past. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Human Paleobiology provides a unifying framework for the study of human populations, both past and present, to a range of changing environments. It integrates evidence from studies of human adaptability, comparative primatology, and molecular genetics to |
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