Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology
03 Feb 2008 17:36
Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder, for yet another subject I find interesting but don't really understand.
See also: Evolution; Evolutionary Psychology
- Recommended:
- Wiktor Stoczkowski, Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination, and Conjecture [Or, why does Lucretius sound so startlingly modern? 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
- 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]
- 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]
