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Human Evolution Through Developmental Change
This book reflects two major strands of research in the study of human heterochrony, the change in the timing and rate of development of individuals.
Pré-textes
« Voici, après Pré-ambules, ou les premiers pas de l’homme, Pré-textes, ou l’homme préhistorique en morceaux. Ces “morceaux” se rapportent, bien sûr, aux hommes fossiles que j’ai toujours fréquentés, souvent cherchés, parfois trouvés, mais aussi aux produits artisanaux ou artistiques, parfois les deux, de leur esprit. C’est un vrai livre de paléoanthropologie et de préhistoire qui fait le tour des sujets servis par ces disciplines. En dehors des faits évoqués en permanence et illustrés souvent, je souhaiterais en effet que le lecteur, et notamment le jeune lecteur, trouve dans ces textes la passion de la recherche, l’éclat de ses résultats et l’élégance de ...
Le Genou de Lucy
Voici l'histoire des jours anciens, notre histoire, celle de la «lente émergence de l'hominidé, de la difficile percée de sa conscience, du lourd redressement de son corps et de l'instabilité émouvante de sa bipédie, de la maladresse de ses premiers essais de taille de la pierre et de sa touchante ténacité à les améliorer». Voici l'histoire d'une science, la paléoanthropologie, et de ses plus récentes avancées. Voici enfin l'histoire d'une vie de recherches, illuminée par la découverte de Lucy, objet de fascinations multiples.«À quoi sert la préhistoire? Voici la réponse: elle met l'homme à sa place. Elle nous fait comprendre qui nous sommes, comment nous le sommes devenus et pourquoi.»
Darwinian Detectives
Biology is often viewed today as a bipartisan field, with molecular level genetics guiding us into the future and natural history (including ecology, evolution, and conservation biology,) chaining us to a descriptive scientific past. In Darwinian Detectives, Norman Johnson bridges this divide, revealing how the tried and true tools of natural history make sense of the newest genomic discoveries. Molecular scientists exploring newly sequenced genomes have stumbled upon quite a few surprises, including that only one to ten percent of the genetic material of animals actually codes for genes. What does the remaining 90-99% of the genome do? Why do some organisms have a much lower genome size than their close relatives? What were the genetic changes that were associated with us becoming human? As molecular biologists uncover these and other new mysteries, evolutionary geneticists are searching for answers to such questions. Norman Johnson captures the excitement of the hunt for our own genetic history. Through lively anecdotes, he explores how researchers detect natural selection acting on genes and what this genetic information tells us about human origins.
The Beast on the Table
Memoirs of Wenner-Gren Foundation anthropological conferences by the former president of the foundation. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Growing Up in the Ice Age
It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles (however they would have codified these kin relationships) who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences a...
What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution
Explores the insights that fossil hominin teeth provide about human evolution, linking findings with current debates in palaeoanthropology.
The Invaders
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? “Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she’s right. ...
More Than a Theory (Reasons to Believe)
The year 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Alongside that event, there are many Darwin Day celebrations planned to acknowledge his 200th birthday. Add to these the virulent attacks of the New Atheists, led by Richard Dawkins. Bible-believing Christians will be left increasingly challenged with the theory of evolution as the only model to explain the origins and age of the universe. In More Than a Theory, Hugh Ross, founder and president of Reasons To Believe, offers discerning readers a comprehensive, testable creation model to consider as an alternative. This fascinating resource will educate readers with a direct response to t...
