Handbook of paleoanthropology / Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, editors

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Henke, Winfried

Tattersall, Ian

Contents

Volume 1. Principles, methods, and approaches. Historical overview of paleoanthropological research / Winfried Henke ; Charles Darwin, paleoanthropology, and the modern synthesis / Franz M. Wuketits ; Evolutionary theory in philosophical focus / Philippe Huneman -- The ontogeny-phylogeny nexus in a nutshell : Implications for primatology and paleoanthropology / Peter R. Menke ; Principles of taxonomy and classification : current procedures for naming and classifying organisms / Michael Ohl ; Species concepts and speciation : facts and fantasies / Colin Groves ; Quantitative approaches to phylogenetics / Kaila E. Folinsbee, David C. Evans, Jörg Fröbisch, Daniel R. Brooks, and Linda A. Tsuji ; Homology : a philosophical and biological perspective / Olivier Rieppel ; Chronometric methods in paleoanthropology / Daniel Richter and Guenther A. Wagner ; Patterns of diversification and extinction / Walter Etter ; Taphonomic and diagenetic processes / Gisela Grupe and Michaela Harbeck ; Contribution of stable light isotopes to paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Julia Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer ; The paleoclimatic record and Plio-Pleistocene paleoenvironments / John Rowan and Kaye E. Reed ; Geological background of early hominid sites in Africa / Ottmar Kullmer ; Paleosols / Gregory Retallack ; Quaternary geology and paleoenvironments / John A. Van Couvering ; Quaternary deposits and paleosites / Klaus-Dieter Jäger ; Paleoecology : an adequate window on the past? / Thorolf Hardt, Peter R. Menke, and Britta Hardt ; Zoogeography : primate and early hominin distribution and migration patterns / Alan Turner and Hannah O'Regan ; The paleodemography of extinct hominin populations / Janet Monge and Alan Mann ; Hominin paleodiets : the contribution of stable isotopes / Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp ; Estimation of basic life history data of fossil hominoids / Helmut Hemmer ; Genetics and paleoanthropology / Jonathan Marks ; Ancient DNA / Susanne Hummel ; Modeling the past : the primatological approach / Robert W. Sussman and Donna Hart ; Modeling the past : the paleoethnological approach / Paolo Biagi ; Modeling the past : archaeology / Miriam N. Haidle ; The evolution of speech and language / Philip Lieberman and Robert C. McCarthy ; General principles of evolutionary morphology / Gabriele A. Macho ; Virtual anthropology and biomechanics / Gerhard W. Weber ; Paleopathology : vestiges of pathological conditions in fossil human bone / Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz ; Microscopic research on fossil human bone / Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz ; Investigation on extracellular matrix proteins in fossil bone : facts and perspectives / Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz and Michael Schultz ; Images in paleoanthropology : facing our ancestors / Stefan Schlager and Ursula Wittwer-Backofen ; Prospects and pitfalls / Jean-Jacques Hublin

Volume 2. Primate evolution and human origins. Primate origins and supraordinal relationships : morphological evidence / Mary T. Silcox, Eric J. Sargis, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Doug M. Boyer ; Molecular evidence on primate origins and evolution / Ryan L. Raaum ; Fossil record of the primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene / Marc Godinot ; Fossil record of Miocene hominoids / David R. Begun ; The biotic environments of the late Miocene hominoids / Jordi Agustí ; Postcranial and locomotor adaptations of hominoids / Carol V. Ward ; Hominoid cranial diversity and adaptation / Alan Bilsborough and Todd C. Rae ; Dental adaptations of African apes / Mark F. Teaford and Peter S. Ungar ; Evolution of the primate brain / Dean Falk ; Primate life histories / Elke Zimmermann and Ute Radespiel ; Great ape social systems / Angela Meder ; Evolutionary biology of ape and monkey feeding and nutrition / Joanna E. Lambert ; The hunting behavior and carnivory of wild chimpanzees / Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher ; Cooperation, coalition, alliances / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, and Jutta Steinhauser ; Primate intelligence / Richard W. Byrne ; Theory of mind : a primatological perspective / Juliane Kaminski

Volume 3. Phylogeny of hominins. Potential hominoid ancestors for Hominidae / George D. Koufos ; Defining Hominidae / Jeffrey H. Schwartz ; Role of environmental stimuli in hominid origins / Elisabeth S. Vrba ; Origins of Homininae and putative selection pressures acting on the early hominins / Bogusław Pawłowski and Wioletta Nowaczewska ; Origin of bipedal locomotion / William E.H. Harcourt-Smith ; The evolution of the hominid brain / Ralph L. Holloway ; Analyzing hominin phylogeny : cladistic approach / David Strait, Frederick E. Grine, and John G. Fleagle ; Phylogenetic relationships of hominids : biomolecular approach / Todd R. Disotell ; The Miocene hominoids and the earliest putative hominids / Brigitte Senut ; The species and diversity of australopiths / William H. Kimbel ; Defining the genus Homo / Mark Collard and Bernard Wood ; The earliest putative Homo fossils / Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, and Timothy Bromage ; Homo ergaster and its contemporaries / Ian Tattersall ; Defining Homo erectus / Karen L. Baab ; Later Middle Pleistocene Homo / G. Philip Rightmire ; Neanderthals and their contemporaries / Katerina Harvati ; Homo floresiensis / Leslie C. Aiello ; Origin of modern humans / Günter Bräuer ; Population biology and population genetics of Pleistocene hominins / Alan R. Templeton ; Dispersals of early humans : adaptations, frontiers, and new territories / Michael Bolus ; The dentition of American Indians : evolutionary results and demographic implications following colonization from Siberia / Christy G. Turner II and G. Richard Scott ; Overview of Paleolithic archaeology / Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick ; Cultural evolution during the middle and late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia / Nicholas J. Conard ; Evolution of religion / Matthias Herrgen ; Paleoanthropology and the foundation of ethics : methodological remarks on the problem of criteriology / Mathias Gutmann and Michael Weingarten

2015

Type

Books

Physical description

3 volumes (xliii, 2624 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Title

Paleoanthropology

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Paleoanthropology

Human evolution

Primates--Evolution

Fossil hominids

Human beings--Origin

Paleoanthropology--Methodology

Record ID

siris_sil_1064083

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