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The emergence of man / John E. Pfeiffer.
LIBRA GN281 .P45 1972
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfeiffer, John E., 1914-1999
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Anthropology.
- Human behavior.
- Animal behavior.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Primates.
- Social history.
- Behavior.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Biological Evolution.
- Social Conditions.
- anthropology.
- human behavior.
- evolution.
- primates (order).
- social history.
- Primitive societies.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Behavior.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Biological Evolution.
- Primates.
- Social Conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 550 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1972]
- Contents:
- Primate origins
- The first members of the family of man
- Southern apes
- links in the evolution of man
- Fossils and tools as clues to man's beginnings
- Early migrations of man's ancestors
- The rise of big-game hunting and the psychology of the hunt
- The impact of big-game hunting on human evolution
- The search for remains of the earliest modern-type men
- Developments in the scientific study of Neanderthal man
- The disappearance of Neanderthal man, the appearance of modern man
- The golden age of prehistory
- Primate studies and revised beliefs about animal behavior
- Chimpanzees: man's closest relatives.
- Observation and experimentation with living primates and carnivoires
- Contemporary hunter-gatherers: last representatives of the stone age
- The behavior of primitive peoples
- Experimental archeology
- The human infant: a study in living prehistory
- The evolution of language
- Study of man: the power of the past, the potential for change
- Epilogue: the future of man, an ex-hunter, in a world that has no place for hunters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-533).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pfeiffer, John E., 1915- Emergence of man.
- ISBN:
- 0060451955
- 9780060451950
- OCLC:
- 604916
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