Publisher's Synopsis
The Blackwell Concise Dictionary of Human Evolution will provide entries for important scientific terms related to improving our understanding the great ape clade of the Tree of Life (i.e., the great ape clade).
Entries will cover:
- evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness.
- general evolutionary principles and up–to–date information about the molecular and developmental biological approaches used to help understand the pattern and process of evolution.
- information about the modern methods used to trace the recent evolutionary history of modern human populations.
- important sites and taxa, and some of the more important individual specimens.
