Download PDF The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution by LARRY L. MAI

Sinopsis

Human biology is a diverse and multidisciplinary field that includes or borrows from anthropology, anatomy, auxology, evolutionary biology, genetics, geology, physiology, and zoology. In our studies of human biology we found that medical or general biology dictionaries often did not define many terms used in non-clinical human biology. This was especially true of the core terms used in physical anthropology and primatology.We have attempted to bridge that gap with this work. This compilation is intended to define and elaborate on the more important terms used in human biology and evolution. For readers with little background in these subjects, it identifies and provides definitions of core terms most frequently used in these areas. In addition, we have attempted to define, and occasionally annotate or expand on, subjects of interest to advanced students and professionals, such as fossil specimens, paleontological sites, and primate genera.

Content

1. The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
2. Ataxonomy of extinct primates
3. Ataxonomy of recent and extant primates
4. Table of extant primate species
5. Ageological time scale
6. Terrestrial chronology of the Pleistocene ‘ice age’ in the northern hemisphere
7. Marine oxygen isotope chronology
8. Anatomical landmarks, postcranial bones and major muscle groups
9. Event timeline of human biology and evolution
10. Tentative hominid phylogeny
11. The Greek alphabet

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