Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology
18 Jun 2009 22:11
Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder, for yet another subject I find interesting but don't really understand.
See also: Evolution; Evolutionary Psychology
- Recommended:
- William Calvin, The Ascent of Mind
- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- The Woman Who Never Evolved
- Mother Nature
- Adam Powell, Stephen Shennan and Mark G. Thomas, "Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior", Science 324 (2009): 1298--1301
- Wiktor Stoczkowski, Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination, and Conjecture [Or, why does Lucretius sound so startlingly modern? My comments. Blurb]
- To read:
- Susan Cachel, Primate and Human Evolution [blurb]
- Patrick D. Evans, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Eric J. Vallender, Richard R. Hudson, and Bruce T. Lahn, "Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103 (2007): 18178--18183
- Dean Falk and Kathleen R. Gibson (eds.), Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex
- Clive Finlayson, Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective [Blurb]
- Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal, "Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104 (2007): 1581--1586 [Open access]
- Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, Maria Victoria Hernandez-Lloreda, Brian Hare and Michael Tomasello, "Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis", Science 317 (2007): 1360--1366
- Lynne A. Isbell, The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well [Blurb. I am curious to see how she explains the fact that other primates do not point to focus shared attention, or have language.]
- Barbara J. King, The Information Continuum: Evolution of Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids
- Richard G. Klein and Blake Edgar, The Dawn of Human Culture
- Haim Ofek, Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution [blurb]
- Michael C. Oldham, Steve Horvath and Daniel H. Geschwind, "Conservation and evolution of gene coexpression networks in human and chimpanzee brains", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103 (2006): 17973--17978
- Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds, Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture [Blurb]
- Gerhard Roth and Ursula Dicke, "Evolution of the brain and intelligence", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2005): 250--257
- Georg F. Striedter, "Precis of Principles of Brain Evolution", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2006): 1--12 [With extensive peer commentary following]
- Karen B. Strier, Primate Behavioral Ecology
- S. G. Webb, The First Boat People [Somewhat eccentric-sounding theory about the peopling of Australia; blurb]
- Ken Wessen, Simulating Human Origins and Evolution [Blurb]
