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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Research has shown that young babies - well before they form their first bond to a caring adult - enjoy participating in groups and group processes. Babies in Groups examines the consequences of these findings for science, for early education practice and policy, and for adult psychotherapy. The authors report research showing the extensive capacity of preverbal infants for group-communication in all-baby trios and quartets, backed by findings about primate sociability, the social brain, cultural histories, and human evolution. These studies open up new ways of imagining human development as fundamentally group-based. In addition, the authors explore the changes that a group-based vision of infancy could bring to early child education and care. They also show how ignoring group contexts in many clinical traditions can distort descriptions of what happens in therapy, producing such unintended consequences as'mother-blaming'for the future problems an infant may experience as she or he grows up. Finally, the book's appendix summarises the main forms of evidence which falsify claims that science has proven that an inborn gift for dyadic'intersubjectivity,'or for one-to-one infant-adult attachments, founds human social development.

In this book, Mariusz Tabaczek develops a contemporary, re-imagined proposal of an Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective on theistic evolution. Deeply rooted in classical philosophy and theology, the volume combines careful textual analysis of ancient, medieval, and contemporary literature with innovative, original, and constructive argumentation and modelling. Tabaczek offers a wide-ranging set of arguments on behalf of those who advocate for the relevance of classical philosophical and theological thought in the context of contemporary science and the dialogue between science and religion. Avoiding simplistic answers to complex questions concerning the origin of species, including the human species, his book inspires critical thinking and a systematic approach to all major philosophical presuppositions and both philosophical and theological repercussions of the theory of evolution. Without contradicting or abandoning the letter of the tradition, Tabaczek echoes the spirit of Aristotle's and Aquinas's philosophy and theology, moving them forward to embrace the evolutionary aspect of the contemporary view of reality.

The survey work Languages of the Himalayas provides a bird's eye view of Himalayan languages and language communities. It also constitutes a primary source for much new, hitherto unpublished data on several languages. The demographic mosaic of the Himalayas today is viewed in a historical and comparative linguistic perspective. The reader will find an outline of the historical and prehistorical developments that have determined the modern ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan region, involving various independent linguistics stocks or language families. Maps illustrate the distribution of language communities and trace the routes of ancient migrations. There is an illuminating discussion of grammatical features found in Himalayan languages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).

Music plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.

This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates? What roles have agriculture, geography, climate, ethnic identity, and language ideologies played in language spread? In this volume, international experts in the field provide new answers to these and related questions, drawing on the increasingly large databases available and on novel analytical research techniques. The first part of the volume outlines some general issues and approaches in the study of language dispersal, diversification, and contact. In the rest of the volume, chapters compare the language and population histories of three major regions - Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America - which show particularly interesting contrasts in the distribution of languages and language families. The volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with insights from archaeology, genetics, anthropology, and geography, and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in language diversity and contact.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader through each key source of past climate and weather information and each technique of analysis; through each historical period and region of the world; through the major topics of climate and history and core case studies; and finally through the history of climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to climate history for scholars and interested readers.

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Lebensform des Menschen als geistige Lebensform. Seit wir wissen, dass die Lebensform des Menschen einem säkular verstandenen Universum zugehört und sich aus der Evolution heraus gebildet hat, ist die Frage unabweisbar, wodurch sie als geistige Lebensform möglich geworden ist. Die Frage hat aber bisher nicht nur keine Antwort gefunden, sie ist als Frage geradezu blockiert worden. Geist scheint entweder am Grunde des Universums gelegen zu sein, in dem er dem säkular gewordenen Naturverständnis nicht zuzurechnen ist oder aber als Vermögen eines Subjekts verstanden zu werden, das mit diesem Vermögen ebenfalls aus der Natur herausgenommen zu sein scheint. Vom Geist wird, mit einem Wort, gesagt, in der Welt zu sein, ohne von der Welt zu sein, jedenfalls nicht von der, die wir in der Neuzeit im Verständnis des Universums gewonnen haben.

Esta investigación precisa las dificultades reales que plantea la integración del hecho de la evolución del viviente corpóreo, en la doctrina de Santo Tomás de Aquino y cómo las han enfrentado otros autores ligados a la tradición tomista. Se examinan también la trayectoria que ha seguido la inteligencia humana en su reconocimiento del hecho evolutivo, el encuentro de la tradición tomista con las teorías evolutivas y la recepción que le han brindado los autores tomistas a la idea de una evolución biológica.

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a “major transition” in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understood as linguistically bifurcated between its five Germanic languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese) and its two Finno-Ugric ones (Finnish and Sámi). In The Languages of Scandinavia, Ruth H. Sanders takes a pioneering approach: she considers these Seven Sisters of the North together. While the two linguistic families that comprise Scandinavia's languages ultimately have differing origins, the Seven Sisters have coexisted side by side for millennia. As Sanders reveals, a crisscrossing of names, territories, and even to some extent language genetics—intimate language contact—has created a body of shared culture, experience, and linguistic influences that is illuminated when the story of these seven languages is told as one. Exploring everything from the famed whalebone Lewis Chessmen of Norse origin to the interactions between the Black Death and the Norwegian language, The Languages of Scandinavia offers profound insight into languages with a cultural impact deep-rooted and far-reaching, from the Icelandic sagas to Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's internationally popular Millennium trilogy. Sanders's book is both an accessible work of linguistic scholarship and a fascinating intellectual history of language.

Die internationale aDNA-Community bearbeitet seit den 1980er Jahren (u.a. historische) Fragestellungen auf der Quellenbasis alter Moleküle - und aktuell diskutieren Historiker_innen die Quelle DNA unter dem Stichwort »Genetic History«. Wie haben Genetiker_innen, Molekularbiolog_innen, Anthropolog_innen und Archäolog_innen im überfachlichen Miteinander die Quelle DNA hergestellt - auf der Ausgrabung, im Labor und am Rechner? Welche epistemologischen und fachpolitischen Zielsetzungen verfolgten sie und wie hat sich die aDNA-Forschung in technischer und methodischer Hinsicht entwickelt? Welche Charakteristika, Chancen und Grenzen hat die Quelle aDNA? Aus wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive befasst sich Elsbeth Bösl mit der Historie des epistemischen Objektes alte DNA und dem kollektiven Produktionsprozess von Wissen in der aDNA-Forschung.

La începutul secolului XXI, mulți analiști consideră că ascensiunea unor puteri precum China sau India înseamnă sfîrșitul dominației Vestului. Pentru a înțelege mai bine acest viitor posibil, trebuie să ne întoarcem în trecut. Ian Morris susține că explicația supremației Vestului în ultimii 200 de ani nu trebuie căutată în diferențele rasiale sau culturale, nici în realizările marilor personalități ce au marcat istoria, ci mai curînd în impactul pe care geografia l-a avut asupra eforturilor de adaptare ale oamenilor obișnuiți, pe măsură ce aceștia s-au confruntat cu lipsa resurselor, cu epidemii sau migrații devastatoare și cu ostilitatea climatului. Solid documentată și bazîndu-se pe cele mai recente descoperiri din variate domenii, De ce Vestul deține încă supremația ne poartă de-a lungul a 50.000 de ani de istorie, în încercarea de a explica motivele care au determinat poziția dominantă a Vestului și de a formula predicții cu privire la ce ne rezervă viitorul în următorul secol. Din cuprins: Configurația istoriei - Lene, teamă și lăcomie - Înainte de Est și Vest - Vestul preia conducerea - Grădina Edenului - Predestinare - Măsurarea trecutului - Estul recuperează decalajul - Cavalerii Apocalipsei - Umăr la umăr - Declinul și prăbușirea - Noua ordine mondială - Epoca Estului - Globalizarea - Arme, microbi și fontă - Vestul recuperează decalajul - Epoca Vestului - Războaiele mondiale - Epoca abundenței - De ce Vestul deține supremația... -...Deocamdată

For courses in Biological Anthropology Present a rich overview of biological anthropology, from early foundations to recent innovations Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind combines comprehensive coverage of the foundations of the field with modern innovations and discoveries, helping students understand, and get excited about, the discipline. Because the authors conduct research in three of the main areas of biological anthropology–the human fossil record (Susan Antón), primate behavior and ecology (Craig Stanford), and human biology and the brain (John Allen)–they offer a specialist approach that engages students and gives them everything they need to master the subject. The Fourth Edition continues to present traditional physical anthropology within a modern Darwinian framework, and includes coverage of contemporary discoveries to highlight the ever-increasing body of knowledge in biological anthropology. Also available with MyAnthroLab® MyAnthroLab for the Biological Anthropology course extends learning online to engage students and improve results. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and offer students opportunities to practice applying what they've learned. Please note: this version of MyAnthroLab does not include an eText. Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, Fourth Edition is also available via REVEL™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab™ & Mastering™ does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab & Mastering, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab & Mastering, search for: 013437794X / 9780134377940 Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind plus MyAnthroLab for Biological Anthropology – Access Card Package, 4/e Package consists of: 0134005694 / 9780134005690 Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, 4/e 0134324404 / 9780134324401 MyAnthroLab for Biological Anthropology Access Card

Though there are a growing number of books out on Adam, this one is unique with its multi-author combination of biblical, historical, theological, scientific, archaeological, and ethical arguments in support of believing in a literal Adam and the Fall. A growing number of professing evangelical leaders and scholars are doubting or denying a literal Adam and a literal Fall, which thereby undermines the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, who came to undo the damaging consequences of Adam's sin and restore us to a right relationship with our Creator. This book is increase your confidence in the truth of Genesis 1–11 and the gospel! Enhance your understanding pertaining to the biblical evidence for taking Genesis as literal history Discover the scientific evidence from genetics, fossils, and human anatomy for the Bible's teaching about Adam Understand the moral, spiritual, and gospel reasons why belief in a literal Adam and Fall are essential for Christian orthodoxy