Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

✍ Scribed by Martin N. Muller (editor); Richard W. Wrangham (editor); David R. Pilbeam (editor)

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 848
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain human uniqueness, by studying our closest living relatives. Their conclusions may transform our understanding of human evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Part I. Was the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans Chimpanzee-Like?
1. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution
2. Reconstructing the Last Common Ancestor of Chimpanzees and Humans
3. Equal, Similar, but Different: Convergent Bonobos and Conserved Chimpanzees
Part II. Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
4. Introduction: Chimpanzees and Human Uniqueness
5. Mortality, Senescence, and Life Span
6. Fertility and Fecundity
7. Locomotor Ecology and Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans
8. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Initial Transitions
9. Evolution of the Human Dietary Niche: Quest for High Quality
10. From Pan to Man the Hunter: Hunting and Meat Sharing by Chimpanzees, Humans, and Our Common Ancestor
11. The Evolution of the Human Mating System
12. From Chimpanzee Society to Human Society: Bridging the Kinship Gap
13. Violent Cousins: Chimpanzees, Humans, and the Roots of War
14. Cooperative and Competitive Relationships within Sexes
15. Cooperation between the Sexes
16. Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees and Humans
17. Tool Use and Manufacture in the Last Common Ancestor of Pan and Homo
18. Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans
19. Chimpanzee Cognition and the Roots of the Human Mind
20. Ancestral Precursors, Social Control, and Social Selection in the Evolution of Morals
21. Communication and Language
Contributors
Index