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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)