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Basics in Human Evolution



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Author: Michael P Muehlenbein

Publisher: Academic Press

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Publish Date: August 6, 2015

ISBN-10: 128026529

Pages: 584

File Type: PDF

Language: English

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Book Preface

I don’t really remember anyone first telling me not to edit a book. However, shortly after agreeing to edit my first volume (Human Evolutionary Biology, 2010, Cambridge University Press), colleagues from all over began asking me why I agreed to do something like this; a commitment that would take years when I could have spent the time writing a book myself, or a dozen articles. Yet Human Evolutionary Biology was produced to fill a gap: a comprehensive reference text written by authorities on subjects varying from theory and methods and phenotypic/genotypic variation to reproduction, growth/development, and evolutionary medicine. There still is no text as broad on the general topic of human evolutionary biology.

I distinctly remember telling myself never to edit another book. That plan clearly didn’t work. I was originally invited to edit the “evolution” section for the third edition of Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Human Biology, and I recruited authors for about 30 appropriate chapters. A year into the process, we were informed that the encyclopedia would be put on hold. A new plan was formulated to expand our section into a stand-alone text (thank you to Pat Gonzalez, Janice Audet, Graham Nisbet, Kristi Gomez, Kristy Halterman, Karen East, and several anonymous reviewers for making this happen; and thank you to Maentis for providing thoughtprovoking illustrations). I subsequently tried to fill in missing topics with an additional 10 chapters, and the result is what you have before you.


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