圖書標籤: 古生物學 人類學
发表于2024-12-24
Evolution's Bite pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with new approaches to uncovering dietary clues from fossil teeth to present a remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth—their shape, chemistry, and wear—reveal how we came to be.
Ungar describes how a tooth's "foodprints"—distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear—provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence—and the scars on our teeth—Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans.
Traveling the four corners of the globe and combining scientific breakthroughs with vivid narrative, Evolution's Bite presents a unique dental perspective on our astonishing human development.
Peter S. Ungar is Distinguished Professor and director of the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction and Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity and the editor of Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
看见这本书的书名就知道这本书所围绕的中心是牙齿。作者以牙齿为出发点,比较灵长类动物,哺乳动物的牙齿的不同,食肉动物与食草动物牙齿的不同。来解密人的牙齿的变化。 这本书不简单的把一些研究材料人物的精选编排。来推算人类的发展,以及周围环境气候与科技进步对牙齿的影...
評分将近300万年的人类进化史,挖掘的古人类身体各部位化石最多的肯定是牙齿化石,所以拿到书以前我以为是一本通过牙齿形态变化讲述进化史的科普书。其实不是,这是一本很难用简单的语言表达出中心内容的书。 这本书几乎涵盖了上个世纪重要的古人类学理论的产生和发展,重要考古学...
評分看见这本书的书名就知道这本书所围绕的中心是牙齿。作者以牙齿为出发点,比较灵长类动物,哺乳动物的牙齿的不同,食肉动物与食草动物牙齿的不同。来解密人的牙齿的变化。 这本书不简单的把一些研究材料人物的精选编排。来推算人类的发展,以及周围环境气候与科技进步对牙齿的影...
評分将近300万年的人类进化史,挖掘的古人类身体各部位化石最多的肯定是牙齿化石,所以拿到书以前我以为是一本通过牙齿形态变化讲述进化史的科普书。其实不是,这是一本很难用简单的语言表达出中心内容的书。 这本书几乎涵盖了上个世纪重要的古人类学理论的产生和发展,重要考古学...
評分看见这本书的书名就知道这本书所围绕的中心是牙齿。作者以牙齿为出发点,比较灵长类动物,哺乳动物的牙齿的不同,食肉动物与食草动物牙齿的不同。来解密人的牙齿的变化。 这本书不简单的把一些研究材料人物的精选编排。来推算人类的发展,以及周围环境气候与科技进步对牙齿的影...
Evolution's Bite pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024