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Author(s): Russell H. Tuttle
ISBN(s): 9780674073166, 0674073169
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File Details: PDF, 9.73 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0674073169

ISBN 13: 9780674073166 

Author: Russell H. Tuttle

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings.

Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches.

This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.

Table of contents:

1. Mongrel Models and Seductive Scenarios of Human Evolution
Part I: Terminology, Morphology, Genes, and Lots of Fossils
2. Apes in Space
3. Apes in Time
4. Taproot and Branches of Our Family Tree
Part II: Positional and Subsistence Behaviors
5. Apes in Motion
6. Several Ways to Achieve Erection
7. Hungry and Sleepy Apes
8. Hunting Apes and Mutualism
Part III: Hands, Tools, Brains, and Cognition
9. Handy Apes
10. Mental Apes
Color Illustrations
Part IV: Sociality and Communication
11. Social, Antisocial, and Sexual Apes
12. Communicative Apes
Part V: What Makes Us Human?
13. Language, Culture, Ideology, Spirituality, and Morality
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index

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