The Evolution of Human Life History

Author/Contributor(s):	Hawkes, Kristen; Paine, Richard R.
Publisher:	SAR Press
Date:	8/28/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging.