In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition

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Front Matter R1-R16
PART I: HUMAN PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY AND THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD 1-4
1 Reconstructing Human Evolution: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities--Bernard Wood 5-26
2 Terrestrial Apes and Phylogenetic Trees--Juan Luis Arsuaga 27-46
3 Phylogenomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in the Ancestry of Humans-Morris Goodman and Kirstin N. Sterner 47-62
4 Human Adaptations to Diet, Subsistence, and Ecoregion Are Due to Subtle Shifts in Allele Frequency--Angela M. Hancock, David B. Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu, Cynthia Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Rem Sukernik, Gerd Utermann, Jonathan Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo 63-80
5 Working Toward a Synthesis of Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Data for Inferring African Population History--Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, and Sarah A. Tishkoff 81-100
PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME 101-104
6 Uniquely Human Evolution of Sialic Acid Genetics and Biology--Ajit Varki 105-126
7 Bioenergetics, the Origins of Complexity, and the Ascent of Man-Douglas C. Wallace 127-146
8 Genome-wide Patterns of Population Structure and Admixture Among Hispanic/Latino Populations--Katarzyna Bryc, Christopher Velez, Tatiana Karafet, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Andy Reynolds, Adam Auton, Michael Hammer, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Harry Ostrer 147-166
9 Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation--Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin 167-184
10 Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome--John C. Avise 185-204
PART III: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING HUMAN 205-210
11 How Grandmother Effects Plus Individual Variation in Frailty Shape Fertility and Mortality: Guidance from Human-Chimpanzee Comparisons--Kristen Hawkes 211-230
12 Gene–Culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics--Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Joseph Henrich 231-256
13 The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language--Steven Pinker 257-274
14 A Role for Relaxed Selection in the Evolution of the Language Capacity--Terrence W. Deacon 275-292
15 Adaptive Specializations, Social Exchange, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence--Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett, and John Tooby 293-318
16 The Difference of Being Human: Morality--Francisco J. Ayala 319-340
References 341-392
Index 393-412

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Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R16

PART I: HUMAN PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY AND THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RECORD 1-4

1 Reconstructing Human Evolution: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities--Bernard Wood 5-26

2 Terrestrial Apes and Phylogenetic Trees--Juan Luis Arsuaga 27-46

3 Phylogenomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in the Ancestry of Humans-Morris Goodman and Kirstin N. Sterner 47-62

4 Human Adaptations to Diet, Subsistence, and Ecoregion Are Due to Subtle Shifts in Allele Frequency--Angela M. Hancock, David B. Witonsky, Edvard Ehler, Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu, Cynthia Beall, Amha Gebremedhin, Rem Sukernik, Gerd Utermann, Jonathan Pritchard, Graham Coop, and Anna Di Rienzo 63-80

5 Working Toward a Synthesis of Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Data for Inferring African Population History--Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, and Sarah A. Tishkoff 81-100

PART II: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN GENOME 101-104

6 Uniquely Human Evolution of Sialic Acid Genetics and Biology--Ajit Varki 105-126

7 Bioenergetics, the Origins of Complexity, and the Ascent of Man-Douglas C. Wallace 127-146

8 Genome-wide Patterns of Population Structure and Admixture Among Hispanic/Latino Populations--Katarzyna Bryc, Christopher Velez, Tatiana Karafet, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Andy Reynolds, Adam Auton, Michael Hammer, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Harry Ostrer 147-166

9 Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation--Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin 167-184

10 Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome--John C. Avise 185-204

PART III: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING HUMAN 205-210

11 How Grandmother Effects Plus Individual Variation in Frailty Shape Fertility and Mortality: Guidance from Human-Chimpanzee Comparisons--Kristen Hawkes 211-230

12 Gene–Culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics--Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Joseph Henrich 231-256

13 The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language--Steven Pinker 257-274

14 A Role for Relaxed Selection in the Evolution of the Language Capacity--Terrence W. Deacon 275-292

15 Adaptive Specializations, Social Exchange, and the Evolution of Human Intelligence--Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett, and John Tooby 293-318

16 The Difference of Being Human: Morality--Francisco J. Ayala 319-340

References 341-392

Index 393-412