Mapping Our Ancestors

Name: Mapping Our Ancestors
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual > \nMuch of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or \""phylogenetic\"" methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history.