Landscapes of human evolution : contributions in honour of John Gowlett /
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Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.
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1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693805 (PDF ebook) :
Landscapes of human evolution : contributions in honour of John Gowlett /
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Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.
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1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693805 (PDF ebook) :
Conversations in human evolution.
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This volume explores the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies, presenting 20 interviews with scholars covering the broad scientific themes of quaternary and archaeological science, Palaeolithic archaeology, biological anthropology and palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary genetics.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (ii, 118 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789695861 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Conversations in human evolution.
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This second volume reports another twenty interviews with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology, earth science and palaeoclimatic change, evolutionary anthropology and primatology, and human disease co-evolution.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (ii, 126 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699487 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Evolution of a community : the colonisation of a clay inland landscape : Neolithic to post-medieval...
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The movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and investigating the human activities that took place there became available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a 16 year period have made a significant contribution to charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and its community over six millennia. 'Evolution of a Community' chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910877 (PDF ebook) :
Evolution of a community : the colonisation of a clay inland landscape : Neolithic to post-medieval...
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The movement of people from the fen edge and river valleys into the clay lands of eastern England has become a growing area of research. The opportunity of studying such an environment and investigating the human activities that took place there became available 9 km to the north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton. The archaeological excavations that took place over a 16 year period have made a significant contribution to charting the emergence of a Cambridgeshire clayland settlement and its community over six millennia. 'Evolution of a Community' chronologically documents the colonisation of this clay inland location and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910877 (PDF ebook) :
Conversations in human evolution.
:
This volume explores the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies, presenting 20 interviews with scholars covering the broad scientific themes of quaternary and archaeological science, Palaeolithic archaeology, biological anthropology and palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary genetics.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (ii, 118 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789695861 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Evolution and human culture : texts and contexts /
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Evolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004319486 :
0929-8436 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Evolution and Human Values /
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Initiated by Robert Wesson, Evolution and Human Values is a collection of newly written essays designed to bring interdisciplinary insight to that area of thought where human evolution intersects with human values. The disciplines brought to bear on the subject are diverse - philosophy, psychiatry, behavioral science, biology, anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, and sociology. Yet, as organized by co-editor Patricia A. Williams, the volume falls coherently into three related sections. Entitled Evolutionary Ethics, the first section brings contemporary research to an area first explored by Herbert Spencer. Evolutionary ethics looks to the theory of evolution by natural selection to find values for human living. The second section, Evolved Ethics, discusses the evolution of language and religion and their impact on moral thought and feeling. Evolved ethics was partly Charles Darwin's subject in The Descent of Man. The last section bears the title Scientific Ethics. A nascent field, scientific ethics asks about the evolution of human nature and the implications of that nature for ethical theory and social policy. Together, the essays collected here provide important contemporary insights into what it is - and what it may be - to be human.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004463851
9789051838305
Conversations in human evolution.
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This second volume reports another twenty interviews with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology, earth science and palaeoclimatic change, evolutionary anthropology and primatology, and human disease co-evolution.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (ii, 126 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699487 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Evolution, cognition, and the history of religion : a new synthesis : festschrift in honour of Armin W. Geertz /
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Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture's and religion's evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004385375 :
2214-3270 ;
The topography and urban evolution of Cairo The topography and urban evolution of Cairo
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Subtitle on color maps in folder: The visuel description
The color maps are a supplement of volume 2 :
2 volumes some color), maps (1 color) ; 25 x 35 cm + color maps in folde 24 cm. :
9789779101606