Mapping Our Ancestors

ISBN: 9780202307503

出版社: Transaction Pub

出版年: 2005-10

页数: 357

定价: $ 79.04

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or 'phylogenetic' methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history.