This reprint of Bernard Wood′s best-selling 2-volume encyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It is ideal for grad students and individual researchers wanting to purchase their own desk copy of this comprehensive work.
This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entries cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness, as well as information about modern methods used to trace the recent evolutionary history of modern human populations. This text provides a resource for everyone studying the emergence of Homo sapiens.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Editor
Executive Editor
Assistant Executive Editor
Senior Editorial Assistant
Editorial Assistant
Associate Editors
Advisory Editors
Section and Topic Editors
Contributors
Foreword by Francisco J. Ayala xi
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xxi
Topic Entry List xxiii
List of Abbreviations lxxvii
A Z 1
References i
