Early Hominids and Adaptation Annotated Bibliography

Harvard University Press. TRussell H. Tuttle in this particular masterwork synthesizes a wide research literature in primate behavior and evolution to explain the manner humans and apes evolved in relation to each other and the reason why y humans became culture-inventing, bipedal and tool-making creatures; distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the theory that humans are importantly killer apes-complicated but instinctively destructive, aggressive beings. Placing the man in a huge context, Tuttle musters evidence from recent fossil discoveries and morphology. The source focuses on the essential role of the surrounding in the process of adaptation. This ends up to clearly show the explanations and principles so as to help develop the evolution discourse by means of natural selection experimentally testable.

The author dares the indigenous bond between human predation and aggression. He claims that violent behavior is a completely competent manner for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey. The author’s creativity I could confidently support it since it develops into a topic.  The archaeology of human ancestry: power, sex and tradition. Routledge. Steele and Shennan argue that tradition, power, and sex: the human ancestry archaeology is an adequate origin for reconstructing the social systems of early modern humans let alone those of ancestral hominid taxa. The authors continue to have an argument that a divergent debate that modern Homo sapiens and earlier hominids evolutionary ecology is different. The authors continue to argue that archeological and fossils remains are the key features in any reconstruction of the human social behavior evolution.