TY - BOOK ID - 119319495 TI - Baobab : the Hadza culture and the African baobab as humanity's ancestral tree of life PY - 2023 SN - 3031264703 303126469X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Plant anatomy. KW - Plant ecology. KW - Plants—Development. KW - Plant physiology. KW - Evolution (Biology). KW - Anthropology. KW - Plant Anatomy and Morphology. KW - Plant Ecology. KW - Plant Development. KW - Plant Physiology. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Primitive societies KW - Social sciences KW - Human beings KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Biology KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Botany KW - Plants KW - Physiology KW - Floristic ecology KW - Phytoecology KW - Vegetation ecology KW - Ecology KW - Plant structure KW - Structural botany KW - Vegetable anatomy KW - Anatomy KW - Structure KW - Adansonia digitata KW - Ethnobotany KW - Hatsa (African people) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119319495 AB - Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins. Because of its extraordinary size and shape, the baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) has long been identified as the most striking tree of Africa’s mosaic savanna, the landscape generally regarded as the environment of hominin evolution. This book makes the case for identifying the baobab as the tree of life in the hunter-gatherer adaptation that was the economic foundation of hominin evolution. The argument is based on the significance of the baobab as a resource-rich environment for the Hadza of northeastern Tanzania, who continue to be successful hunter-gatherers of the African savanna. ER -