Beschreibung:
With hands-on experience, case studies and further examples, this book is an essential practical guide to computational nanomechanics. The underlying theory is made accessible to readers without training or background in computational engineering or nanoscience fields, but it will also be very useful to more experienced graduates and researchers.
1. Evolution; 2. Technology: dating, diets, and development; 3. Discovery and interpretation of the human fossil record: the early days; 4. Discovery and interpretation of the human fossil record: more recent developments; 5. Early bipeds; 6. The muddle in the middle; 7. Homo heidelbergensis and the Neanderthals; 8. The emergence and spread of Homo sapiens.