In the Light of Evolution IV [[electronic resource] ] : The Human Condition
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| Autore: |
Avise John C
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| Titolo: |
In the Light of Evolution IV [[electronic resource] ] : The Human Condition
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, : National Academies Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 576.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AyalaFrancisco J. <1934->
SciencesNational Academy of
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Front Matter""; ""Arthur M. Sackler, M.D.1913-1987""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the *In the Light of Evolution* Series""; ""Preface to *In the Light of Evolution, Volume IV: The Human Condition*""; ""PART I: HUMAN PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY AND THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD""; ""1 Reconstructing Human Evolution: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities--Bernard Wood ""; ""2 Terrestrial Apes and Phylogenetic Trees--Juan Luis Arsuaga ""; ""3 Phylogenomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in the Ancestry of Humans-Morris Goodman and Kirstin N. Sterner "" |
| ""4 Human Adaptations to Diet, Subsistence, and Ecoregion Are Due to Subtle Shifts in Allele Frequency--Angela M. Hancock, David B. Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu, Cynthia Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Rem Sukernik, Gerd Utermann, Jonathan Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo """"5 Working Toward a Synthesis of Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Data for Inferring African Population History--Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, and Sarah A. Tishkoff ""; ""PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME"" | |
| ""6 Uniquely Human Evolution of Sialic Acid Genetics and Biology--Ajit Varki """"7 Bioenergetics, the Origins of Complexity, and the Ascent of Man-Douglas C. Wallace ""; ""8 Genome-wide Patterns of Population Structure and Admixture Among Hispanic/Latino Populations--Katarzyna Bryc, Christopher Velez, Tatiana Karafet, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Andy Reynolds, Adam Auton, Michael Hammer, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Harry Ostrer""; ""9 Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation--Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin "" | |
| ""10 Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome--John C. Avise """"PART III: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING HUMAN""; ""11 How Grandmother Effects Plus Individual Variation in Frailty Shape Fertility and Mortality: Guidance from Human-Chimpanzee Comparisons--Kristen Hawkes ""; ""12 Gene Culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics--Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Joseph Henrich ""; ""13 The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language--Steven Pinker "" | |
| ""14 A Role for Relaxed Selection in the Evolution of the Language Capacity--Terrence W. Deacon """"15 Adaptive Specializations, Social Exchange, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence--Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett, and John Tooby ""; ""16 The Difference of Being Human: Morality--Francisco J. Ayala ""; ""References""; ""Index"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In the Light of Evolution IV |
| ISBN: | 1-282-94856-3 |
| 9786612948565 | |
| 0-309-15658-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456663503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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