Guts and Brains : An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record.

Intro -- Contents -- 1: Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record -- 2:Notes on the Implications of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis for Human Biological and Social Evolution -- 3: Energetics and the Evolution of Brain Size in Early Homo -- 4: The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life. History among Primates and Humans -- 5: Why Hominins Had Big Brains -- 6: Ecological Hypotheses for Human Brain Evolution: Evidence for Skill and Learning Processes in the Ethnographic Literature on Hunting -- 7: Haak en Steek - The Tool that Allowed Hominins to Colonize the African Savanna and to Flourish There -- 8: Women of the Middle Latitudes. The Earliest Peopling of Europe from a Femaile Perspective -- 9: The Diet of Early Hominins: Some Things We Need to Know before "Reading" the Menu from the Archaeological Record -- 10: Diet Shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe? The Stable Isotope Evidence -- 11: The Evolution of the Human Niche:Integrating Models with the Fossil Record -- Index.

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