Chimpanzees and Human Evolution 1st Edition by Martin N Muller, Richard W Wrangham, David R Pilbeam ISBN 9780674982642 0674982649

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ISBN 10: 0674982649
ISBN 13: 9780674982642
Author: Martin N Muller, Richard W Wrangham, David R Pilbeam

Knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild has expanded dramatically in recent years. This comprehensive volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain what is unique about humans, by studying their closest living relatives. Their observations and conclusions have the potential to transform our understanding of human evolution.
Chimpanzees offer scientists an unmatched view of what distinguishes humanity from its apelike ancestors. Based on evidence from the hominin fossil record and extensive morphological, developmental, and genetic data, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution makes the case that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was chimpanzee-like. It most likely lived in African rainforests around eight million years ago, eating fruit and walking on its knuckles. Readers will learn why chimpanzees are a better model for the last common ancestor than bonobos, gorillas, or orangutans. A thorough chapter-by-chapter analysis reveals which key traits we share with chimpanzees and which appear to be distinctive to Homo sapiens, and shows how understanding chimpanzees helps us account for the evolution of human uniqueness. Traits surveyed include social behaviors and structures, mating systems, diet, hunting practices, tool use, culture, cognition, and communication.
Edited by three of primatology’s most renowned experts, with contributions from 32 scholars drawing on decades of field research, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution provides readers with detailed up-to-date information on what we can infer about our chimpanzee-like ancestors and points the way forward for the next generation of discoveries.

Chimpanzees and Human Evolution 1st Edition Table of contents:

 I. Was the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans Chimpanzee-Like? —

1. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution —

2. Reconstructing the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans —

3. Equal, Similar, but Different: Convergent Bonobos and Conserved Chimpanzees —

II. Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Uniqueness —

4. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Uniqueness —

5. Mortality, Senescence, and Life Span —

 6. Fertility and Fecundity —

7. Locomotor Ecology and Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans —

 8. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Initial Transitions —

9. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Quest for High Quality —

10. From Pan to Man the Hunter: Hunting and Meat Sharing by Chimpanzees, Humans, and Our Common Ancestor —

11. The Evolution of the Human Mating System —

12. From Chimpanzee Society to Human Society: Bridging the Kinship Gap —

13. Violent Cousins: Chimpanzees, Humans, and the Roots of War —

14. Cooperative and Competitive Relationships within Sexes —

15. Cooperation between the Sexes —

 16. Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees and Humans —

17. Tool Use and Manufacture in the Last Common Ancestor of Pan and Homo —

18. Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans —

19. Chimpanzee Cognition and the Roots of the Human Mind —

20. Ancestral Precursors, Social Control, and Social Selection in the Evolution of Morals

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