Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
Sang-Hee Lee / Shin-Young Yoon
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 transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture and its demographic consequences; altruism and more. The topics are presented in the form of captivating popular stories that can be read in any order, making this work based on lectures and articles by the American researcher Sanha Lee a good first step in biological anthropology.
