An Ape's View of Human Evolution

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ID23801111
AuthorsPeter Andrews (0009-0007-2853-2569)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-07
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueApe's View of Human Evolution (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316180938
OpenAlexW4230756101
ISBN9781316180938
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology, this book provides a new perspective on human evolution. What can fossil apes tell us about the origins of human evolution? Did the last common ancestor of apes and humans live in trees or on the ground? What did it eat, and how did it survive in a world full of large predators? Did it look anything like living apes? Andrews addresses these questions and more to reconstruct the common ancestor and its habitat. Synthesising thirty-five years of work on both ancient environments and fossil and modern ape anatomy, this book provides unique new insights into the evolutionary processes that led to the origins of the human lineage.

Ancestor · Archaeology · Australopithecus · Biological evolution · Biology · Bonobo · Common descent · Environmental ethics · Evolutionary biology · Fossil Record · Genealogy · Geography · Hominidae · Human evolution · Lineage (genetic) · Living fossil · Most recent common ancestor · Phylogenetic tree · Phylogenetics · Ecology · Evolution and Science Education · History · Philosophy

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