Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The social oganisation and adaptations of early hominids to various environments during the plio-poleistocene
AU  - Butovskaia ML
Y1  - 1999
VL  - 37
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 27
EP  - 31
KW  - Hominids
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Adaptation
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Pleistocene period
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Evolutionism
KW  - Sexual selection
N2  - 
N2  - This article uses insight from social ecology to model the evolution of and changes in the social structures of ancestral hominids during the Plio-Pleistocene. It argues that while changing climates had an acknowledged effect on ancestral lifeways and behaviour, to understand the social organization of hominids we need to consider both historic and demographic factors as well. I argue that the hominid range expansion in evidence during the Pleistocene resulted from socio-ecological solutions adopted by the hominids. 
ER  -