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Close encounters with humankind : a paleoanthropologist investigates our evolving species / Sang-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publication details: �2018 Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393634822
  • 0393634825
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 569.93/8 23
LOC classification:
  • GN281 .L4413 2018
Contents:
Introduction: Let's take a journey together -- 1. Are we cannibals? -- 2. The birth of fatherhood -- 3. Who were the first hominin ancestors? -- 4. Big-brained babies give moms big grief -- 5. Meat lovers R us -- 6. Got milk? -- 7. A gene for Snow White -- 8. Granny is an artist -- 9. Did farming bring prosperity? -- 10. Peking man and the Yakuza -- 11. Asia challenges Africa's stronghold on the birthplace of humanity -- 12. Cooperation connects you and me -- 13. King Kong -- 14. Breaking back -- 15. In search of the most humanlike face -- 16. Our changing brains -- 17. You are a Neanderthal! -- 18. The molecular clock does not keep time -- 19. Denisovans : the Asian Neanderthals? -- 20. Hobbits -- 21. Seven billion humans, one single race? -- 22. Are humans still evolving? -- Epilogue 1: Precious humanity -- Epilogue 2: An invitation to an unfamiliar world of paleoanthropology -- Appendix 1: Common questions and answers about evolution -- Appendix 2: Overview of hominin evolution.
Summary: Explores how the field of paleoanthropology enables insights into some of the world's leading evolutionary questions, exploring such topics as the life cycles of ancient people, the origins of social nature, and the common traits between modern humans and Neanderthals.
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"Originally published in Korea [©2015] by ScienceBooks Publishing Co., Ltd., Seoul, a division of Minumsa publishing Group ... English translation ©2018"--Verso of title page.

Volume based on essays originally published in Gwa Hak Dong A, a science magazine for the general public.--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.

Introduction: Let's take a journey together -- 1. Are we cannibals? -- 2. The birth of fatherhood -- 3. Who were the first hominin ancestors? -- 4. Big-brained babies give moms big grief -- 5. Meat lovers R us -- 6. Got milk? -- 7. A gene for Snow White -- 8. Granny is an artist -- 9. Did farming bring prosperity? -- 10. Peking man and the Yakuza -- 11. Asia challenges Africa's stronghold on the birthplace of humanity -- 12. Cooperation connects you and me -- 13. King Kong -- 14. Breaking back -- 15. In search of the most humanlike face -- 16. Our changing brains -- 17. You are a Neanderthal! -- 18. The molecular clock does not keep time -- 19. Denisovans : the Asian Neanderthals? -- 20. Hobbits -- 21. Seven billion humans, one single race? -- 22. Are humans still evolving? -- Epilogue 1: Precious humanity -- Epilogue 2: An invitation to an unfamiliar world of paleoanthropology -- Appendix 1: Common questions and answers about evolution -- Appendix 2: Overview of hominin evolution.

Explores how the field of paleoanthropology enables insights into some of the world's leading evolutionary questions, exploring such topics as the life cycles of ancient people, the origins of social nature, and the common traits between modern humans and Neanderthals.

Translated from the Korean. Original title unavailable.

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