It draws upon the fossil record to shed light on the key scientific issues, principles, methods, and history in paleoanthropology. The book proceeds through the fossil record of human evolution by historical stages representing the acquisition of major human features that explain the success and distinctive properties of modern Homo sapiens.
Written by established leaders in the field, providing depth of expertise on evolutionary theory and anatomy through to functional morphology, this textbook is essential reading for all advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in biological anthropology.
Review "The Human Lineage could be used as a sole text, supplemented with journal articles and library sources. This is true of the writing, but is particularly apparent in the or so superb illustrations that detail dozens of fossils as well as anatomical structures and mechanics. From the Back Cover An engaging, clearly written presentation of human evolution The Human Lineage focuses on the last ten million years of human history, from the hominoid radiations of the Miocene to the emergence and diversification of modern humanity.
It draws upon the fossil record to shed light on the scientific issues, principles, methods, and history of paleoanthropology. Its chapters cover historical geology, evolutionary analysis, primate origins and evolution, and the functional morphology, relationships, and adaptations of the human lineage and its side branches through the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Balanced in its presentation of conflicting theories, and richly illustrated with informative, well-labeled anatomical drawings and graphics, The Human Lineage is not only an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, but also a significant contribution to the literature of biological anthropology.
His areas of interest include: Bipedal locomotion, Gait analysis, and Origin and differentiation of primates in addition to several other subjects. Fred H. Smith is a biological antrhopologist with specific interests in human paleontology and functional anatomy.
He teaches courses in human paleontology, human osteology, introductory biological anthropology, and the paleolithis prehistory of Europe and Africa. Further, both are great teachers with years of experience working with students. Although the book is quite detailed and voluminous, don't be scared off by this.
The way they use scientific data is to tell a story - it is not unlike some other books out there just another too detailed overview of everything there is. These guys tell us a human story and make sure to guide us along the way.
Easy to read and with extensive list of used references. If you're seriously getting into the field of paleoanthropology, treat yourself with this volume.
You won't be sorry. Excellent Current Update in a Field Ever in Motion By Al Sundel We have badly needed a readable book on this subject that incorporates the latest discoveries and can relate them to the major landmarks in paleoanthropology. I especially enjoyed the section on Saint Cesaire, a crucial figure in the Late Neanderthal period.
I do not agree with the authors' explanation of the single-species theory. Its modification is that it began after Lucy, specifically with the great example we have of Nariokotome Boy. It is highly possible that, from that point on, we have had a single species with high diversity. Nariokotome Boy straddles the bridge between present-day East African typologies and Lucy, but it is more of "us" than anything we have preceding it. This epic-in-a-nutshell book is too cautious with the Cro-Magnon remains, and not as informative as we would have liked about the period c 34,, BC.
Smith It is very same. Smith You may not have sufficient time to spend, may you? Smith currently! It draws upon the fossil record to shed light on the key scientific issues, principles, methods, and history in paleoanthropology. The book proceeds through the fossil record of human evolution by historical stages representing the acquisition of major human features that explain the success and distinctive properties of modern Homo sapiens.
Written by established leaders in the field, providing depth of expertise on evolutionary theory and anatomy through to functional morphology, this textbook is essential reading for all advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in biological anthropology.
Review "The Human Lineage could be used as a sole text, supplemented with journal articles and library sources.
This is true of the writing, but is particularly apparent in the or so superb illustrations that detail dozens of fossils as well as anatomical structures and mechanics. From the Back Cover An engaging, clearly written presentation of human evolution The Human Lineage focuses on the last ten million years of human history, from the hominoid radiations of the Miocene to the emergence and diversification of modern humanity.
It draws upon the fossil record to shed light on the scientific issues, principles, methods, and history of paleoanthropology.
Its chapters cover historical geology, evolutionary analysis, primate origins and evolution, and the functional morphology, relationships, and adaptations of the human lineage and its side branches through the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
Balanced in its presentation of conflicting theories, and richly illustrated with informative, well-labeled anatomical drawings and graphics, The Human Lineage is not only an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, but also a significant contribution to the literature of biological anthropology. His areas of interest include: Bipedal locomotion, Gait analysis, and Origin and differentiation of primates in addition to several other subjects.
Fred H. Smith is a biological antrhopologist with specific interests in human paleontology and functional anatomy. He teaches courses in human paleontology, human osteology, introductory biological anthropology, and the paleolithis prehistory of Europe and Africa.
Further, both are great teachers with years of experience working with students. Although the book is quite detailed and voluminous, don't be scared off by this. The way they use scientific data is to tell a story - it is not unlike some other books out there just another too detailed overview of everything there is.
These guys tell us a human story and make sure to guide us along the way. Easy to read and with extensive list of used references. If you're seriously getting into the field of paleoanthropology, treat yourself with this volume. You won't be sorry. Excellent Current Update in a Field Ever in Motion By Al Sundel We have badly needed a readable book on this subject that incorporates the latest discoveries and can relate them to the major landmarks in paleoanthropology.
I especially enjoyed the section on Saint Cesaire, a crucial figure in the Late Neanderthal period. I do not agree with the authors' explanation of the single-species theory. Its modification is that it began after Lucy, specifically with the great example we have of Nariokotome Boy.
He has published more than a hundred scholarly and popular works on the evolution of people and other animals and on the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Well known for his revolutionary analyses of the origins and early evolution of the ancestral primates, he has also made innovative contributions to scientific thinking about the origins and relationships of higher primates, prosimian anatomy, early hominin adaptations, quadrupedal locomotion, cranial evolution, and the philosophy of science.
His award-winning book, A View to a Death in the Morning , is a witty and thoughtful dissection of the cultural assumptions behind the hunting hypothesis in human evolution. He is the co-author with F. Smith and illustrator of The Human Lineage , a comprehensive new survey of human evolution. The recipient of numerous awards for his research, writing, and teaching, Dr. While known among faculty for his wide-ranging knowledge—among other topics, he is an expert on animation—he is perhaps best known to his students for his vibrant sense of humor.
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