| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
LUP Academic
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LUP academic.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / Wil Roebroeks -- Notes on the implications of the expensive tissue hypothesis for human biological and social evolution / Leslie C. Aiello -- Energetics and the evolution of brain size in early Homo / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass -- Evolution of diet, brain and life history among primates and humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and others] -- Why hominins had big brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Ecological hypotheses for human brain evolution : evidence for skill and learning processes in the ethnographic literature on hunting / Katharine MacDonald -- Haak en steek -- the tool that allowed hominins to colonize the African savanna and to flourish there / R. Dale Guthrie -- Women of the middle latitudes : the earliest peopling of Europe from a female perspective / Margherita Mussi -- Diet of early hominins : some things we need to know before "reading" the menu from the archaeological record / Lewis R. Binford -- Diet shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe? : the stable isotope evidence / Michael P. Richards -- Evolution of the human niche : integrating models with the fossil record / Najma Anwar [and others]. |
| Summary |
Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Eng. |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Origin.
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Human beings -- Origin. |
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Fossil hominids.
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Fossil hominids. |
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Diet -- History.
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Diet. |
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History. |
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Brain -- Evolution.
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Brain -- Evolution. |
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Brain -- physiology. |
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Evolution. |
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Diet. |
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Hominidae. |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Roebroeks, Wil.
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| Added Title |
Integrative approach to the hominin record |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Guts and brains. [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, ©2007 9789087280147 9087280149 (OCoLC)180982604 |
| ISBN |
9789048508051 (electronic book) |
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9048508053 (electronic book) |
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9087280149 |
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9789087280147 |
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9789087280147 |
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