The climate connection: climate change and modern human evolution

Description: Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concernover the potential impacts of climate change on our future is clearly evident. In order to better understand our present circumstances and deal effectivelywith future climate change, society needs to become more informed about the historical connection between climate and humans. The authors' combined research in the fields of climate change, evolutionary biology, Earth sciences and human migration and behaviour complement each other, and have facilitated an innovative and integrated approach to the human evolution-climate connection. TheClimate Connection provides an in-depth text linking 135,000 years of climatechange with human evolution and implications for our future, for those working and interested in the field and those embarking on upper-level courses on this topic INDICE: 1. Introduction; Part I. Early Human History: 2. From ape to human: the emergence of hominids; 3. Human behavioural evolution; 4. The migration and diaspora of Homo; Part II. Climate During the Last Glacial Cycle: 5. Climate change over the last 135,000 years; 6. The effect of 135,000 years of changing climate on the global landscape; Part III. The Interaction Between Climateand Humans: 7. The interaction between climate and humans; 8. Climate and agriculture; 9. Climate and our future; Appendix A. The biological background to the story of evolution: the book within the book: A.1. Evolutionary adaptability; A.2. Developmental evolution; A.3. Human adaptability: the physiological foundation; References; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-521-14723-1
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 440
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés