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