Bernard Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jeremy DeSilva. A Most Interesting Problem
Article Jeremy DeSilva. A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Wrong and Right about Human Evolution was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 5, issue 2)
Human Evolution
Early hominins
During the period from 8–5 million years ago, the Earth experienced the beginning of a long-term drying and cooling trend. Due to the increasing dryness, forests were replaced with open woodland, and areas of grassland began to appear. Hominin evolution began in Africa at the time of these climatic changes. ‘Early hominins: possible and probable’ reviews four collections of fossils that represent each of the ‘candidate’ species that have been put…
Fossil hominins
Palaeoanthropologists use many methods to work out the significance of newly discovered fossil evidence, but the first task is to assign hominin fossils to a taxon. After that researchers work out that taxon’s relationships with other fossil and living taxa, and then they infer the behaviours and habitat preferences of the taxon. ‘Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation’ explains the workings of classification and taxonomy. It describes how …
Archaic and transitional hominins
‘Archaic and transitional hominins’ considers the fossil species that almost certainly belong to the hominin clade, but which are still a long way from being like modern humans. The fossils that share more of their morphology with modern humans than they do with chimpanzees and bonobos, yet do not show the changes in jaw and tooth size and in body size and shape that characterize hominin species we are more comfortable with, including within our …
Fossil hominins
‘Fossil hominins: their discovery and context’ discusses what the hominin fossil record consists of, how it is discovered and recovered, and how it and its context are investigated, which includes the processes of dating fossils and reconstructing past environments. It reviews the evidence that can be used to investigate what the 6–8 million-year-old hominin clade looks like. How much of it can be reconstructed by looking at variation in modern h…
Pre-modern Homo
So when and where in human evolutionary history do we see the earliest evidence of creatures that are more like modern humans? ‘Pre-modern Homo ’ considers the species that many hominins researchers are comfortable with recognizing as members of the genus Homo . It looks at the earliest fossil evidence of pre-modern Homo from Africa, and then follows Homo as it moves out of Africa into the rest of the Old World. It begins with Homo ergaster , dat…
Unreasonable expectations
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Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
Archaic and transitional hominins
‘Archaic and transitional hominins’ deals with creatures that almost certainly belong to the hominin clade, but which are still far from resembling modern humans. These hominins share more of their morphology with modern humans than with chimps, but changes in jaw, tooth, and body size and shape are not characteristic of later hominin species. The fossil record 3–4 million years ago grows stronger. The Australopith taxa from southern and eastern …
Early hominins
The Human Foot
"The Human Foot, a collaboration between an orthopedic surgeon and a paleoanthropologist, starts by tracing the evolutionary history of feet all the way from their beginnings as fins to modern human feet. It presents the foot, a neglected but important region, taking into account advances in the study of evolution, imaging, physiology and biomechanics." "The text is an invaluable resource for orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, sports scientis…
Human Evolution
"This Very Short Introduction traces the history of our understanding of human evolution - taking the reader right up to the very latest fossil findings and the debates about what they mean." "Providing an 'insider's view' of current paleoanthropology, Bernard Wood explains how human fossils are found, analyzed, and interpreted, and what the latest advances in genetics and a range of other sciences can reveal about our earliest origins."--Jacket.
Canadian Nationalism
Canadian Nationalism
Human Evolution
"This Very Short Introduction traces the history of our understanding of human evolution - taking the reader right up to the very latest fossil findings and the debates about what they mean." "Providing an 'insider's view' of current paleoanthropology, Bernard Wood explains how human fossils are found, analyzed, and interpreted, and what the latest advances in genetics and a range of other sciences can reveal about our earliest origins."--Jacket.
The Human Foot
"The Human Foot, a collaboration between an orthopedic surgeon and a paleoanthropologist, starts by tracing the evolutionary history of feet all the way from their beginnings as fins to modern human feet. It presents the foot, a neglected but important region, taking into account advances in the study of evolution, imaging, physiology and biomechanics." "The text is an invaluable resource for orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, sports scientis…
Archaic and transitional hominins
‘Archaic and transitional hominins’ deals with creatures that almost certainly belong to the hominin clade, but which are still far from resembling modern humans. These hominins share more of their morphology with modern humans than with chimps, but changes in jaw, tooth, and body size and shape are not characteristic of later hominin species. The fossil record 3–4 million years ago grows stronger. The Australopith taxa from southern and eastern …
Early hominins
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
Unreasonable expectations
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Human Evolution
Early hominins
During the period from 8–5 million years ago, the Earth experienced the beginning of a long-term drying and cooling trend. Due to the increasing dryness, forests were replaced with open woodland, and areas of grassland began to appear. Hominin evolution began in Africa at the time of these climatic changes. ‘Early hominins: possible and probable’ reviews four collections of fossils that represent each of the ‘candidate’ species that have been put…
Fossil hominins
Palaeoanthropologists use many methods to work out the significance of newly discovered fossil evidence, but the first task is to assign hominin fossils to a taxon. After that researchers work out that taxon’s relationships with other fossil and living taxa, and then they infer the behaviours and habitat preferences of the taxon. ‘Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation’ explains the workings of classification and taxonomy. It describes how …
Archaic and transitional hominins
‘Archaic and transitional hominins’ considers the fossil species that almost certainly belong to the hominin clade, but which are still a long way from being like modern humans. The fossils that share more of their morphology with modern humans than they do with chimpanzees and bonobos, yet do not show the changes in jaw and tooth size and in body size and shape that characterize hominin species we are more comfortable with, including within our …
Fossil hominins
‘Fossil hominins: their discovery and context’ discusses what the hominin fossil record consists of, how it is discovered and recovered, and how it and its context are investigated, which includes the processes of dating fossils and reconstructing past environments. It reviews the evidence that can be used to investigate what the 6–8 million-year-old hominin clade looks like. How much of it can be reconstructed by looking at variation in modern h…
Pre-modern Homo
So when and where in human evolutionary history do we see the earliest evidence of creatures that are more like modern humans? ‘Pre-modern Homo ’ considers the species that many hominins researchers are comfortable with recognizing as members of the genus Homo . It looks at the earliest fossil evidence of pre-modern Homo from Africa, and then follows Homo as it moves out of Africa into the rest of the Old World. It begins with Homo ergaster , dat…
Jeremy DeSilva. A Most Interesting Problem
Article Jeremy DeSilva. A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Wrong and Right about Human Evolution was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 5, issue 2)
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Biology (6 works) · Paleontology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Fossil Record (4 works) · History (4 works) · Phylogenetics (4 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (4 works)