Lasker, Gabriel Ward

The evolution of man : a brief introduction to physical anthropology / Gabriel Ward Lasker. - New York, NY : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1961. - xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Table of Contents

Physical anthropology
Evolution, the dynamic process
The organic basis of life
Early evolutionary pathways toward man as reflected in surviving forms
The order primates
Primate behaviour nonhuman and human
Evolutionary processes and paleontological principles
Some fossil primates
Java man and peking man
Neanderthal and other
The question of the origin of modern types of man
Human genetics, the how of man's evolution
Blood groups
Population genetics : changes in gene frequencies from mutations and natural selection
Some further factors in the population genetics of radiation
The races of the world
Measurement of man
Growth patterns in the individual
Evolution and the future

Includes index


Human evolution

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