The Lawrence Jacobsen Library
Books Received (Primate-Science/PrimateLit)

THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIFE HISTORY

Edited by Kristen Hawkes and Richard R. Paine



FROM THE PUBLISHER

Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman 
primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did 
these uniquely human patterns evolve? To answer that question, this volume 
brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and 
demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human 
paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify 
and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and 
timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction. Drawing 
on new evidence from paleoanthropology, they question existing arguments that 
link humans' extended childhood dependency and long "post-reproductive" lives 
to brain development, learning, and distinctively human social structures. The 
volume reviews alternative explanations for the distinctiveness of human life 
history and incorporates multiple lines of evidence in order to test them.


ABOUT THE EDITORS

Kristen Hawkes, Department of Anthology, University of Utah

Richard R. Paine, Department of Anthology, University of Utah



CONTENTS

1. Introduction

Richard R. Paine and Kristen Hawkes

2. The Derived Features of Human Life History

Shannen L. Robson, Carel P. van Schaik, and Kristen Hawkes

3. Life History Theory and Human Evolution: A Chronicle of Ideas and Findings

Kristen Hawkes

4. Slow Life Histories and Human Evolution

Kristen Hawkes

5. Primate Life Histories and the Role of Brains

Carel P. van Schaik, Nancy Barrickman, Meredith L. Bastian, Elissa B. Krakauer, 
and Maria A. van Noordwijk

6. Lactation, Complementary Feeding, and Human Life History

Daniel W. Sellen

7. Modern Human Life History: The Evolution of Human Childhood and Fertility

Barry Bogin

8. Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers and Human Life History Evolution

Nicholas Blurton Jones

9. The Osteological Evidence for Human Longevity in the Recent Past

Lyle W. Konigsberg and Nicholas P. Herrmann

10. Paleodemographic Data and Why Understanding Holocene Demography Is Essential 
to Understanding Human Life History Evolution in the Pleistocene

Richard R. Paine and Jesper L. Boldsen

11. The Evolution of Modern Human Life History: A Paleontological Perspective 
Matthew M. Skinner and Bernard Wood

Appendix 1. Splitting (Speciose) Hominin Taxonomy

Appendix 2. Lumping (Less Speciose) Hominin Taxonomy

Appendix 3. Notes for Body Mass and Brain Size Data Used in Tables 11.3 and 11.4

References

Index



WHERE TO ORDER

ISBN Number 978-1-930618-72-5 (Paperback $34.95)

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Posted Date: 10/12/2006