Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species

The book addresses a wide range of problems in biological anthropology. Among them: the reproductive strategy of fossil hominins and primates in general, the emergence of conscious paternity; upright posture in fossil ancestors; evolution of brain size; nutrition (meat eating and overcoming lactase deficiency in adults); increase in the duration of human life in the process of evolution; the trans...