Description
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 PART I: HUMAN PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY AND THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD; 3 1 Reconstructing Human Evolution: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities--Bernard Wood; 4 2 Terrestrial Apes and Phylogenetic Trees--Juan Luis Arsuaga; 5 3 Phylogenomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in the Ancestry of Humans-Morris Goodman and Kirstin N. Sterner; 6 4 Human Adaptations to Diet, Subsistence, and Ecoregion Are Due to Subtle Shifts in Allele Frequency--Angela M. Hancock, David B. Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu, Cynthia Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Rem Sukernik, Gerd Utermann, Jonathan Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo; 7 5 Working Toward a Synthesis of Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Data for Inferring African Population History--Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, and Sarah A. Tishkoff; 8 PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME; 9 6 Uniquely Human Evolution of Sialic Acid Genetics and Biology--Ajit Varki; 10 7 Bioenergetics, the Origins of Complexity, and the Ascent of Man-Douglas C. Wallace; 11 8 Genome-wide Patterns of Population Structure and Admixture Among Hispanic/Latino Populations--Katarzyna Bryc, Christopher Velez, Tatiana Karafet, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Andy Reynolds, Adam Auton, Michael Hammer, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Harry Ostrer; 12 9 Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation--Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin; 13 10 Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome--John C. Avise; 14 PART III: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING HUMAN; 15 11 How Grandmother Effects Plus Individual Variation in Frailty Shape Fertility and Mortality: Guidance from Human-Chimpanzee Comparisons--Kristen Hawkes; 16 12 Gene-Culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics--Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Joseph Henrich; 17 13 The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language--Steven Pinker; 18 14 A Role for Relaxed Selection in the Evolution of the Language Capacity--Terrence W. Deacon; 19 15 Adaptive Specializations, Social Exchange, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence--Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett, and John Tooby; 20 16 The Difference of Being Human: Morality--Francisco J. Ayala; 21 References; 22 Index
