AuthorScientific American
TitleHuman variation and origins : an introduction to human biology and evolution / With introductions by W.S. Laughlin and R.H. Osborne
Imprint San Francisco : Freeman, [c1967]
Descript 297 p. : ill., maps, ports ; 28 cm

CONTENT

I. Processes and history:- 1. The genetic basis of evolution -- 2. Charles Lyell -- 3. Charles Darwin -- 4. Crises in the history of life -- II. Intraindividual variation:- 5. The living cell -- 6. Mammalian eggs in the laboratory -- 7. The genetic code -- 8. How do cells differentiate? -- 9. The skin -- 10. Electrical effects in bone -- 11. The antiquity of human walking -- 12. Human growth -- III. Intrapopulation variation:- 13. Ionizing Radiation and evolution -- 14. The evolution of the hand -- 15. Adaptations to cold -- 16. Tools and human evolution -- 17. The origin of speech -- 18. Learning to think -- 19. Sickle cells and evolution -- 20. The genetics of the Dunkers -- IV. Interpopulation variation:- 21. The distribution of man -- 22. The lesson of the pygmies -- 23. World population -- 24. The origins of new world civilization -- 25. The prehistory of the Australian Aborigine -- 26. Homo erectus -- 27. The early relatives of man


SUBJECT

  1. Evolution
  2. Human evolution
  3. Human genetics

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Science Library : Dept. of Biology QH368 H918s 1967 CHECK SHELVES