Simulating Human Origins and Evolution

by K. P. Wessen

Book Overview

The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer simulation provides a means of experimenting within an idealised framework to allow aspects of these processes and their interactions to be isolated, controlled, and understood. In this book, computer simulation is used to model migration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521397995
• ISBN13: 9780521397995
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"