Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology

by R Foley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582446902
• ISBN13: 9780582446908
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Pearson/Education
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Title

The title sums up the brilliant insight Foley brings from evolutionary biology to anthropology: All species are unique. The table of contents shows his method of deriving facts about humans from the thoroughly un-unique aspects of their ecological niche: humans as large-bodied mammals, humans as tropical mammals, humans as carnivores, etc. The point of the textbook is that the subject of hominid paleobiology must be that of any other zoological paleo-investigation: To find the derived characters that combine to make the unique pattern of heritage and adaptation we see in the species today.

general

Rob's one of my lecturers so I sort of had to read it, but if you're studying bio anth in any shape or form - particularly human evolution - try it and enjoy %^)