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Human adaptability : future trends and lessons from the past /

"This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1996 Human Adaptibility: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past . The first paper is the annual conference lecture Human Evolution Today: Which Way Next? delivered by Professor Maciej Hennenberg, the newly appointed Wood Jo...

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific Firm; University of Western Australia. Centre for Human Biology; Australasian Society for Human Biology
Group Author: Oxnard, Charles E., 1933; Freedman, L. Leonard, 1923; Pervan, Rayma; Murphy, Denise
Published: World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 1997.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Perspectives in human biology, v. 3
Subjects:
Human ecology > Congresses
Adaptation Biology > Congresses
Human evolution > Congresses
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3682#t=toc
Summary: "This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1996 Human Adaptibility: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past . The first paper is the annual conference lecture Human Evolution Today: Which Way Next? delivered by Professor Maciej Hennenberg, the newly appointed Wood Jones Professor at the University of Adelaide. This is followed by the transcripts of two papers resulting from a debate on Species and Human Evolution, also from the meeting. The first is Species Concept in Palaeoanthropology by Colin Groves and the second, The Problem of Species in Hominid Evolution by
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vi,119pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9789812816603
CLC: Q98-1
Contents: Human evolution today: which way next? / Maciej Henneberg -- Species concept in palaeoanthropology / Colin P Groves -- The problem of species in hominid evolution / Maciej Henneberg -- Philosophical problems in palaeoanthropology / Darren K Curnoe -- A biological basis for generative learning in science / Lynette Schavenen and Mark Cosgrove -- Patterns of morphological discrimination in the human talus: a consideration of the case for negative function / R S Kidd and CE Oxnard -- The specific status of a new Siwalik Sivapithecine specimen and the 'primitive derived' status of the Ponginae /

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