Details

Subject(s)

• Human evolution [Browse]
• Primates [Browse]
• Human beings—Origin [Browse]

Related name

• Washburn, S. L. (Sherwood Larned), 1911-2000 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography ; X. [More in this series]
• Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Theory of anthropology ; X [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume reviews the meaning of taxonomic statements and considers our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors. They also examine the relationship of behaviour changes and selection pressures in evolutionary sequences.
First published in 1964.

Notes

First published in 1964.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover ; Classification and Human Evolution; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents ; The Meaning of Taxonomic Statements; East African Fossil Hominoidea and the Classification Within this Super-Family; Quantitative Taxonomy and Human Evolution; Some Considerations in the Formulation of Theories of Human Phylogeny; Age Changes, Sex Differences, and Variability as Factors in the Classification of Primates; The evaluation of Characteristics of the Skull, Hands, and Feet for Primate Taxonomy; The Classification of Oreopithecus
• The Locomotor Functions of HominidsBehavior and Human Evolution; Man's Place in the Phylogeny of the Primates; The Chromosomes of the Hominoidea; Perspectives in Molecular Anthropology; Some Problems in the Analysis and Comparison of Monkey and Ape Behavior; A Comparison of the Ecology and Behavior of Monkeys and Apes; Psychological Definitions of Man; The Taxonomic Evaluation of Fossil Hominids; Genetic Entities in Hominid Evolution; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-55068-2
• 0-415-86932-3
• 1-315-01801-2
• 1-136-55061-5

OCLC

• 864414417
• 958105896
• 861789196

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315018010

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