Contents -- Preface: Homo sapiens, the rational animal -- Chapter 1 Evolution, genetics, and systematics -- 1.1 The theory of evolution -- 1.2 Population and evolutionary genetics -- 1.3 The classification of living beings -- Chapter 2 The evolution of hominoids -- 2.1 Hominoid taxonomy -- 2.2 Early Miocene hominoids -- 2.3 Middle Miocene: the migration of apes out of Africa -- 2.4 Late Miocene: the divergence of great apes -- Chapter 3 The hominin lineage -- 3.1 The origin of hominins -- 3.2 Bipedal locomotion -- Chapter 4 Miocene and Pliocene genera and species -- 4.1 The first hominins -- 4.2 Australopithecus -- Chapter 5 Pliocene hominins: South Africa and the Rift Valley -- 5.1 South African sites -- 5.2 South African hominins of the Pliocene -- 5.3 The ''gracile'' and ''robust'' alternatives in East Africa -- Chapter 6 The Pliocene cladogenesis: Paranthropus versus Homo -- 6.1 Evidence from Koobi Fora -- 6.2 Alternatives in the evolution of robust and gracile clades -- Chapter 7 The radiation of Homo -- 7.1 Asian Homo erectus -- 7.2 The erectus grade in Africa -- Chapter 8 Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade -- 8.1 Cultural patterns in the migration out of Africa -- 8.2 The earliest cultures -- 8.3 Homo in Europe -- Chapter 9 The late-Pleistocene transition -- 9.1 Archaic Homo sapiens -- 9.2 Neanderthals -- 9.3 Molecular data -- 9.4 The origin of modern humans -- Chapter 10 The uniqueness of being human -- 10.1 Culture and mental traits during the late Paleolithic -- 10.2 The origins of symbolism -- 10.3 The origin of language -- 10.4 The evolution of moral behavior -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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